Chas Kroll, Certified Tea Master™ and Executive Director of the American Tea Masters Association, is proud to be called a tea master, not for its catchy nomenclature, but because he is passionate about teaching others. Formerly, he owned and operated Royal Dynasty Tea, an online specialty tea business, which he sold in June 2006. His original vision for the company was to disseminate information on more...

Alan Laszuk, Certified Tea Master™. My early exposure to tea stemmed from studying the Inuit and Eskimo culture for a stage production called “Inuk and the Sun.” The Eskimo guides of the early polar explorers greatly cherished that hot cup of the explorer’s tea, and growing up in the mean winters of Chicago, I could identify what great joy a cup of hot tea brings to one’s spirit.more...