Search Results for 'Tea'

Teacher, an expert in her homeland, finds classical Indian d...

Divya Narayanan thinks you can — and should — dance. The petite woman who was born and raised in Delhi, India, landed in Utah along with her husband and daughter in 2007. As a child, she was heralded throughout her homeland [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Cultural thirst drives China's high-end tea boom

Fifteen years ago the Lam family business picked up a consignment of aged tea from a defunct Hong Kong restaurant. Its value has since risen by a factor of 10,000, as the Lams have found themselves part of a boom that is both investment f [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Kalasha culture feels heat of modernity stealthily making in...

Away from the fevers and frets of life, a strange conglomerate of about 4,000 people dotting the picturesque countryside of Chitral valley, continues discreetly to battle with the temptations of modern life which apparently are impacting [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Yak Butter Tea and Tibetan Culture

This morning my friend Kemo, the cultural resources person in the science office, decided to ride with us to a village to interview elders. As we turned up the steep road, two older women popped into sight. Kemo immediately had the driver [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Randy Edsall sets about changing the culture of Maryland’s f...

Randy Edsall has set limits on players’ facial hair and stripped their surnames from the backs of jerseys. He confined academically borderline players to study hall during spring practices and banned earrings and baseball caps. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Your Morning Fashion and Beauty Report: A nonroyal wedding f...

Sarah Palin's Army reservist son Track, 22, has married his high school sweetheart, Britta Hanson, 21, in a small ceremony in Hatcher Pass, Alaska, and it seems to have been a much more low-key event than the recent royal wedding acro [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

South Korean Kite Festival, Culture Fascinates Team Mangalor...

The city-based group of amateur kite flyers, ‘Team Mangalore’, which has in the past, exhibited its flair for kite flying and creating excellent kites in Europe and American continents and earned lot of accolades, did it this [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Miniature village teaches culture, faith

A raccoon tries to sneak in an attic. Below, pirogues float in the murky brown bayou, and an alligator crawls through the grass on his belly.It's a scene many parishioners at Annunziata Catholic Church in Houma have experienced thems [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Tea and Chinese Cultural Aesthetics

Pei-kai Cheng, founding director and professor of the Chinese Civilisation Centre at the City University of Hong Kong and author of the recent two-volume publication, The Complete Annotated Collection of Chinese Tea Books, explores the cu [...]

Posted On : Jul, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Acrobats steal the show on DSF opening night

A spectacular acrobatic show performed by the Chinese State Circus at the Dubai Festival City was one of the highlights of the opening day of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) on Thursday.More than 30 world-class acrobats and martial arts m [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

'The Hamburger: A History' good to last bite, teaches about ...

Writing an ode to a single foodstuff is a road studded with pitfalls. If you go too granular, your narrative is derailed by obscurity. If you're too generalist, you sink into a morass of cliche. Which is why, with the hamburger - and there [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

Teaching A Child To Get Up And Greet Any Elder

When a child is 6 years of age as far as I think he/she is a child but not that much of a child that he/she cannot grasp what is taught to him/her by her/his parent. Basically the growing up ritual is to groom the child and one eleme [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Never To Steal Anything From Anywhere/Anyone

In bringing up a child a mother should take care in teaching the child never to steal anything from anyone or anywhere again no matter what because stealing is bad and against the law if today a child is not stopped from stealing away [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2008 | Comments : 0

The Japanese Tea Ritual

The Japanese tea ritual is not a ceremonial at all, if that utterance is taken to denote an static program of proceedings and services. Rather, it is a subtly variable way to commune with nature and with friends. Deeply rooted in Chinese Ze [...]