February 2012
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Rock and Roll Tea Shops
Is there anything more rock and roll than tea? Umm. Well, if the truth be told, tea is probably still suffering from something of an image problem. You know the one — elderly women in festive hats gathering in stuffy tea houses to drink so-so tea and eat those little sandwiches with the crusts removed.… Continue reading
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Valentine’s Day Postscript — Tea-for-Two Sets Revisited
Tea for two has certainly been a common theme for the romantics among us. Featured in both movies and songs, the phrase epitomizes that cozy, intimate time out from a busy world to enjoy good company and a good “cuppa.” Awhile back, I wrote about tea-for-two sets and so thought, having just gone through Valentine’s… Continue reading
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“The Way of Tea” by Aaron Fisher
In the course of several years spent writing about tea at this site, at my own site, and various others, I’ve read and reviewed quite a few tea books and have encountered a lot of other titles in passing. On the whole they seem to fall into a few main categories. There are the broad… Continue reading
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Educate or Cater To — The Role of a Tea Shop
“To educate, or not to educate? That is the question!” Ah, if Shakespeare were alive today! He would tell tea shop owners a thing or two. Selling anything is tough. Selling something like tea can be even tougher, especially to a customer base raised on instant tea, weak tea in a string-and-tag bag, and the… Continue reading
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Spruce Up Old Tea with Essential Oils
I decided to take the opportunity to revisit my tea cupboard and whilst there were some teas that had kept well despite years of storage (one of which I had written about in a previous post), there were other teas that were not as fortunate. Having enjoyed a sample of Dragonwell green tea I went… Continue reading
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Tea Moment — “Honey, I’m Home!”
From the Boston Tea Party to modern day tea shops and tea rooms, we enjoy our tea moments. Often, we enjoy those moments at home in front of the TV, so much so that you could say tea and TV are part of US culture. In my early years, I watched shows where the wife… Continue reading
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Tea Pioneers: Thomas Twining
Starting a business can be a tough row to hoe. Nowadays, according to the United States Small Business Adminstration about half of all small businesses here are likely to fail within the first five years. So if you managed to somehow come up with a business that were to survive for the next 300 years… Continue reading
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Tea and the Drawing Lesson
Starting with the basics can be a great approach in many things. You crawl before you can walk. You ride your bicycle with training wheels and eventually those wheels come off. You learn the simpler dance steps before you go for the fancy ones. And so on. This approach is the one I’ve taken when… Continue reading
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Organizing a Tea Tasting
Looking for something fun to do on a grey winter’s day? Why not share the joys of tea by inviting friends and family to a tea tasting! Keep the group cozy, maybe ten people max. Ask one of your guests – one who knows how to make tea – to assist you. Choose the teas… Continue reading
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Offbeat News & Gadgets
The great wide world of tea is not a particularly strange one, as these things go, but there are enough offbeat tidbits of news and quirky gadgets to merit a brief piece of this sort now and again. It’s been a while since the last one so hang onto your hats. Here we go. I… Continue reading
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