October 2012
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When Your Tea Kettle Fools You
Accurate water temperature can make the difference in the taste of your tea, but your tea kettle can fool you. Then, you end up with understeeped black tea that needed boiling water or oversteeped green tea that needed water heated to around 180° F. A tea lover’s nightmare! I discovered this foolery when my Asta… Continue reading
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Stash Tea and Me
I came to tea rather late in life, having discovered its many and varied charms less than a decade ago. But back in the good old days, when I was just beginning to make my acquaintance with this beverage, I experimented with quite a number of varieties from the good people at Stash Tea. Some… Continue reading
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Getting Ghoulish for Your Halloween Tea Time
As this globe we live on repeats another orbit round the Sun, we come again to Halloween and, of course, that means some spooky, eerie, and downright scary tea times! Cats always figure pretty big at Halloween, but as Janis Badarau also points out, they are always part of tea time. So, cats and Halloween… Continue reading
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5 Ginger Teas and Infusions for Autumn
As the October days roll on, crisp air and chilly winds have become the norm. While September might have provided you with a bit of a weather challenge, October is firmly Autumn. It is around this time of year that I find myself tending towards teas with more warming flavours and ginger is top among… Continue reading
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Teapot
You’ve all heard that little ditty “Twinkle, twinkle, little star…” but have you heard about twinkly teapots? Yes, twinkly. The quality of twinkliness is not in every teapot. Those cute little Yixing (pronounced “eesheeng”) clay teapots are usually of a fairly matte or even flat finish. Some ceramic teapots also have a softer appearance due… Continue reading
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“Indian Tea: Its Culture and Manufacture” by Claud Bald
The Indian tea industry was not yet a century old, in 1908, when Claud Bald published (the second edition of) Indian Tea: Its Culture and Manufacture, but it was doing quite nicely for itself. The first forays to assess the Assam region for its tea growing potential didn’t really get rolling until about eighty years… Continue reading
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5 Teas Perfect for Cooler Weather
Cooler weather means more hot tea, and that means teas that have a more robust flavor that can take the heat. I’ve listed five of my fave cool weather teas and, just to show they’re appealing to others, too, I’ve included some customer comments for each one (typos and all). Check ’em out if you… Continue reading
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Celebrating Autumn: Applesauce Tea Loaf
One of the most enjoyable rituals of autumn is apple-picking. Every year around the end of September we choose a day to head over to a local pick-your-own orchard. Then we spend an hour or two out in the fresh, cool sunshine, scouting out our favourite apple varieties, plucking the fruit off the trees and… Continue reading
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10 Super Things to Toast with Tea in October
Hello again, fellow tea lovers, time to explore special dates in October that are worthy of a toast of the teacup. Of course, there some well-known ones: Columbus Day on the 8th, and the biggee, Halloween on the 31st. Let us not slight, though, the lesser known occasions. I present some for your to explore… Continue reading
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Green Tea Aids Memory?
The litany of potential health benefits for green tea continues. For anyone who might have missed it, the latest in this multitude of possible benefits is the notion that green tea might help enhance memory. For more on how tea can help other brain functions, refer to this article from a few years ago. It… Continue reading
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