What a great time of year it is! There’s so much going on in the sports world! The NCAA Men’s and Women’s basketball championships, Opening Day for many baseball teams and everyone is getting ready for the Master’s (I’m sure all the talk about the greens and tee’s at Augusta has everyone brewing up their [...]

Good manners start young. No one knows this better than Dorothea Johnson, founder of the Protocol School of Washington and the grandmother of actress Liv Tyler (the daughter of Aerosmith musician Steve Tyler who is best known for her film work in Lord of the Rings and Stealing Beauty).
Johnson had already authored several books on [...]

Is there a link between your tea preferences and your personality type? Some might argue there is. iVillage has introduced a light-hearted listing that attempts to identify personality traits based on a tea lover’s favored flavors.
Take, for example, Earl Grey fans. Like the delicate aroma of your favorite tea, your feelings are easily bruised, although [...]

Contrary to this popular song’s refrain, “Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet but the fruit of the poor lemon…”  poor lemon?   Not quite!  Lemon juice has been proven to boost green tea’s anti-oxidant properties by as much as 80%.  More specifically, a study at Purdue University found that lemon juice caused [...]

As a company we have very little turnover of employees, recently we looked and over 70% of our employees have 7 plus years with the company.  Just last week we celebrated a person’s 30th anniversary with Bigelow Tea.  In June we do have a plant manager who is retiring and so we are going through [...]

FAIRFIELD, Conn., February 2008 – This March, integrate a new component of your day: a cup of green tea. As the designated month for celebrating nutrition and the annual host of St. Patrick’s Day, March is the perfect time to reap the health benefits of this 3,000-year-old green beverage.
According to a study conducted by researchers [...]

The little girl was called Sam and 30-some years ago she chanced into a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, thanks to the antics of her older brother. Sam L. Lamp has recounted the tale for The Celebrity Cafe: she was invited to join Barbra Streisand for tea after her brother gave his tag-along sister the slip during play. “I [...]

What is the Easter bunny carrying this year? He’s bringing the Bigelow Easter Basket, filled with delectable treats and Bigelow Teas. Order today for your special someone. And for dinner, try the Glazed Ham with Constant Comment Orange Sauce. It is sure to please the palette of everyone at [...]

Spring is here! Can’t you just feel it? The days are longer, the sun is warmer and the smells are different. From a more esoteric perspective, this all happens because spring is considered the period of time from the vernal equinox, when day and night are equal (March 20) to the June [...]

Drinking at least a cup of black tea a day may reduce the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease by as much as 70% says a landmark study out of Singapore that suggests that consumption of black tea may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease. What makes this new research so remarkable has been its extensive scope. [...]