December 2010
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English Breakfast Blend No. 2
The Subject: English Breakfast Blend No. 2 Company: The English Tea Store Water temperature: 212° F Steeping time: 5 mins. Tea type: Black Additions: N/A Aroma, dry leaves: Malty, jammy, rich 1st Infusion: Aroma, plain — Malty, jammy, hint of fruity Taste, plain — Malty, jammy, astringent, hint of fruity Color, plain — Red-brown Taste, enhanced — Smooth, caramelly, slightly… Continue reading
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Learning About Tea Can Be Fun
Don’t know a lot about tea? Don’t worry. There is a ton of information out there. You don’t have to approach it like drudgery or school homework. It can be lots of fun. No one person can possibly know everything about tea, even those who have been in the business 30 years or more. New… Continue reading
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Tea for Feet, Rooibos for Skin
Tea can do many things for our health, or so we’ve been told over the course of the past few years or so. But what can it possibly do for our feet? If you’ve ever had the misfortune to encounter a pair of shoes that are past their prime you might have a clue. As… Continue reading
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Tea in Strange Places
If you’ve been keeping track of food-related trends in recent years you might have noticed the rise of the so-called locavore movement. It’s a movement that espouses a relatively simple notion, that we should strive to eat foods that are locally grown. Which is all well and good and an admirable concept, but in the… Continue reading
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Tea Traditions — Australia
The Land Down Under is famous for many things, including the Sydney Opera House, kangaroos, Crocodile Dundee, vegemite, and tea. Yes, tea! Their close association with Britain over the last few centuries makes this hardly surprising. Of course, the fact that tea is the second most popular beverage, after water, on the planet, makes the… Continue reading
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Other Types of “Tea”
For many of us, tea is a word that can be tossed around rather loosely, in the sense that it can be used to describe a wide variety of leafy plant matter that’s typically prepared by steeping it in hot water. In the strictest sense of the word, however, as any self-respecting nitpicker will be… Continue reading
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The Artistry of Tea
There’s the art of tea and then there’s the art that you can make from things that are tea-related, for lack of a better term. As you may have already noticed, there is often a high level of artistry that infuses many of the items that we use to prepare, serve and drink tea and… Continue reading
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Japanese Black Tea
Japan and black tea – they go together like…well. Ummm. Actually black tea and Japan don’t go together all that well at all, at least not as far as most of us are aware. When we think of Japanese tea most of us think of a variety of green teas that range from okay to… Continue reading
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Review — Stash Organic Earl Grey Black & Green Tea
Name: Organic Earl Grey Black & Green Tea Brand: Stash Tea Type: Black and green tea, flavored Form: Paper tea bag Review: I confess to being highly suspicious of Stash’s Organic Earl Grey Black & Green Tea. For one thing, every tea company going has their own version, and all claim that their blend is… Continue reading
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Flu Fighting Tea & Aphrodisiac Tea
With flu season pretty much upon us, this is as good a time as any to discuss the interesting notion that tea might be able to help us ward off this malady. That’s green tea, everyone’s favorite wonder elixir, to be more specific, and you don’t even have to drink it to get these beneficial… Continue reading
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