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May 2013

  • What the 800-Pound Gorilla Has to Say About Tea

    If you’re of a certain age, you might recall popular commercials for a certain stockbroker (if not, you can always turn to YouTube). After the mere mention of their name reliably caused an entire room to go silent, the proceedings closed with the catchphrase, “when E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.” Which is a roundabout way… Continue reading

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  • Stopping for Tea in Bremen, Germany

    Should you find yourself wandering around Bremen in need of some tea, rest assured that there is a delightful place to stop. Bremen, a small city in north-western Germany, is an extremely walkable city, especially if you are spending most of your time in the cultural and historic centre of the city known as the… Continue reading

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  • Tea and Remembering Mom

    How do you comfort a beloved father for the loss of his wife of almost 40 years? That’s the dilemma I faced with my own father when mom passed away many years ago. Theirs had been a very loving relationship. Time for a pot of tea, and a quiet moment of reflection as Mother’s Day… Continue reading

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  • PG Tips Monkey Pens Life Story

    It might be stretching the point a bit to say that PG Tips, the popular British tea maker, built their success on their clever advertising campaigns. It would have all been for nought if no one liked their tea but it probably didn’t hurt that they’ve come up with some of the best known ad… Continue reading

  • Drinking Your Tea to the Dregs

    Awhile back I advocated avoiding the dreaded tea dregs. Those nasty bitter final drops in the teapot. Time and more tea adventures with some truly superior tea has me rethinking that position. Why waste a precious drop? Dregs can occur in any tea, from those powdered instants to the full leaf steepings. Some consider this… Continue reading

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  • What Makes Music into “Tea Music”?

    Before we get to discuss what would define music as tea music, we first need to answer the question, whether there is such thing as “tea music” at all. It seems that while music seems to be rarely composed for the particular purpose of being tea music, some of the music that is basically produced… Continue reading

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  • Tea — a Replacement for Coffee?

    A recent Tea Forum showed how those of us in North America are becoming more conscious of tea. That is, we’re not just willy-nilly grabbing that cheap teabag, dunking it in tepid water, and slurping down the resulting sorry excuse for tea. As great as all that is, I’d like to go a step further… Continue reading

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  • Celebrity Tea News

    Where would we be without our beloved celebrities? It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who once wrote, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” I’m sure there’s more than a few grains of truth to that but at least one way in which celebrities tend to come down… Continue reading

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  • Are Your Tea Towels Thirsty?

    Tea towels are handy to have around the kitchen. They suck up spills, dry our dishes, and generally keep things neat and dry. If you don’t use them enough, though, they can get a bit thirsty! Don’t panic. No one is advocating that you engage in spilling things (especially not your tea) just to save… Continue reading

  • Adding Milk to Tea

    There is a long-running, healthy debate about milk and tea (when do you add milk? Should you or shouldn’t you? How much?) and several articles on this blog have contributed their opinions on these questions. As one recent article quite rightly concludes, the bottom line is that it is really about personal preference. However, I… Continue reading

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