December 2012
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Tea Review: English Tea Store Organic Assam TGFOP
In my recent review of the English Tea Store’s Golden Heaven Yunnan, a Chinese black tea, I may have spoken a bit rashly. After many years of enthusiastically banging the drum for Assam tea, I made the comment that “I’m starting to wonder if I don’t like Yunnan better.” Which wasn’t exactly a definitive statement,… Continue reading
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The Tea Biz – Go Big or Go Home?
What’s good for General Motors is good for America. Forget about the fact that this is a rather famous example of a misquote, of sorts. Accurate or not, consider that in some people’s minds this statement has come to signify that a particular business can become so large that its fortunes and misfortunes might have… Continue reading
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Prepping for the Holidays — Fruit Cakes
More holiday prepping is in line here. This time, the loved (and despised) fruit cake is the object of our attention. A holiday tradition dating back as far as the 1400s when fruits from the Mediterranean region were dried to preserve them during the long ocean voyage to Britain and upon arrival considered only fit… Continue reading
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Coffee Versus Tea (Another Round)
I grow weary. For purposes of this article, what I’ve specifically grown weary of is the ongoing battle, of sorts, between tea and coffee drinkers. If you look through the archives at my own tea site, you’ll see that I took part in this sort of thing for a time, but now I’m over it… Continue reading
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Tea — A Global Experience
Our “shrinking world” has been a catchphrase used for quite a few years now. It basically means that communications and travel have gotten faster and cheaper. Both have certainly made tea a truly global experience. Tea shipments are faster, and you can tweet about them on Twitter, post about them on Facebook and your blog,… Continue reading
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Cooking with Tea: Fruitcake You’ll Actually Want to Eat!
Everybody knows that nobody likes fruitcake. We all secretly fear opening up a beautifully wrapped gift and finding “it” inside. Or being served a slice and surreptitiously wrapping it in our napkin and stuffing it … somewhere. Anywhere. As long as we don’t have to eat it! Let’s face it: Fruitcake has gotten a really… Continue reading
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All I Want For Christmas
As an accident prone young feller, I was without my two front teeth for a while. But I’ve got that covered now, so I’ll turn my attentions to a few tea-related items I might like to see under the Christmas tree. First, a few things that won’t be on my list. Like those fancy high-falutin’… Continue reading
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Do You Really Need to Clean Tea Stains Out of Your Teapots?
A lot of fuss gets made about cleaning teapots and other teawares. But this thought has recently come to mind: do you really need to clean tea stains out of your teapots? So often we go along being told that we need to do this or that or whatever, and we do it. Every now… Continue reading
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Futili-TEA
You steep up a potful. In a twinkling, the pot is empty. You steep up another potful. Again — whoosh! — it’s empty. On and on. It’s pure futili-TEA! And it’s enough to make any Tea Princess or even the most manly Tea Guy go to a level of frustration usually described as “aaaaaggghhh!” Time… Continue reading
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Prepping for the Holidays — Cocoa and Chocolate Drinks
Tea and water may be the top two beverages on the planet, but cocoa is definitely on the top ten list. And during the holiday season here in the U.S., it climbs into the top five. Having some cocoa and chocolate drinks on hand is a great way to prep for those holiday visitors. And… Continue reading
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