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YaY! It’s Raining Chewy Ginger People Candy! 2 Pounds of Chewy Gin Gins: Original, Peanut, Hot Coffee, and Spicy Apple Flavors in a Gift Box

About This Black Tie Mercantile Signature™ Gift Box: For over 30 years, The Ginger People—Bruce and Abbie Leeson—have traveled to preeminent ginger growing regions around the world, partnering directly with ginger farmers in order to source the most premium quality ginger. In their global search for the world’s best ginger, The Ginger People discovered places like Viti Levu, Fiji; with one of the most pristine ecosystems in the world, nutrient-rich soil and natural irrigation from tropical rainfall, Fiji produces some of the world’s purest ginger. Using sustainable practices, The Ginger People’s farming partners around the world rotate ginger crops with cassava, taro, and other annuals to maintain the integrity and productivity of the soil. Gin Gins Chewy Ginger Candy is America’s top selling ginger candy and winner of the Fiery Food Association’s Scovie Award for Best Candy; and due to ginger’s nausea-quelling properties, Gin Gins are great while flying, boating, or driving. Now get a Black Tie Mercantile Signature™ Gift Box for any occasion featuring one 2 lb assorted bag of The Ginger People Gin Gins Original Chewy Ginger Candy, The Ginger People Gin Gins Peanut Chewy Ginger Candy, The Ginger People Gin Gins Hot Coffee Chewy Ginger Candy, and The Ginger People Gin Gins Spicy Apple Chewy Ginger Candy.

The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World’s Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History

What started as an impossible dream-to build a café that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars. Becca Stevens started the Thistle Stop Café to empower women survivors. But when she discovered a connection between café workers and tea laborers overseas, she embarked on a global mission called “Shared Trade” to increase the value of women survivors and producers across the globe. As she recounts the victories and unexpected challenges of building the café, Becca also sweeps the reader into the world of tea, where timeless rituals transport to an era of beauty and the challenging truths about tea’s darker, more violent history. She offers moving reflections of the meaning of tea in our lives, plus recipes for tea blends that readers can make themselves. In this journey of triumph for impoverished tea laborers, hope for café workers, and insight into the history of tea, Becca sets out to defy the odds and prove that love is the most powerful force for transformation on earth.

Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origin in China to Sen Rikyu

The author follows tea drinking practices from their arrival in Japan to the time of Rikyu, considering at each stage the relevant historical changes and their significance for the Way of Tea. Shortly after its arrival during the Heian era (794-1185), tea was celebrated by Japanese poets, who attributed the same spiritual qualities to the beverage as had their Chinese contemporaries. During the medieval era, however, tea began to take on a distinctively Japanese character. Eisai (1141-1215), the founder of the Rinzai sect of Japanese Zen Buddhism, accentuated the medicinal aspect of tea and saw it as a means of salvation in a spiritually degenerate age (mappo).