Recently, the British broadcaster and columnist Adrian Chiles wrote about his challenges sourcing one of his favorite teas: the distinctive, not always pleasingly smoky brew known as lapsang souchong.

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Visiting the birthplace of black tea can be a challenge. China no longer guards the secrets of its production, as it did in imperial days. But the pine- and bamboo-covered Wuyi hills of northern ...

The connoisseur’s tea of choice has been replaced with an ‘old cigarettes’ blend, to the dismay of customers Eleanor Steafel is a feature writer whose work spans an improbably broad range of topics, ...

Yes, the tea is an acquired taste. But now I can’t get hold of it, and I’m suffering Santa brought me some lapsang souchong teabags for Christmas. I had run out of them sometime in the middle of last ...

Once a favourite drink of middle-class Brits, Lapsang Souchong is now disappearing from supermarket shelves. We traveled to the remote tea farms of Fujian to find out why. This podcast transcript is ...

This dessert is all about a startling combination of flavors—apricots, smoky Lapsang souchong tea, chocolate, maraschino liqueur, and cream. Every element of this dessert can be made in advance.