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September 2013

  • Tea Tasting Palate Cleansers

    With the growing popularity of tea tastings, the question often arises what should be used to clean the palate between each tea. I went on a mission to answer this question, and I wanted to share it with you. With a significant amount of wine tasting under my belt, I felt I had some idea… Continue reading

  • How Do You Bake Your Scones?

    Scones are a top tea time treat. They are the heart and soul of a “cream tea” that features them along with clotted cream and fruit preserves (often raspberry or blackcurrant). They are also part of breakfast for many of us and have even been known to show up for lunch, dinner, and that all… Continue reading

  • On the Science of Sweetened Tea

      I’ve never been particularly keen on sweetened tea. I don’t know if that puts me in the minority of tea drinkers but the fact is that there are plenty of people who do like their tea sweetened. Enough to apparently make it worthwhile to do a research study on the topic. Or a bunch… Continue reading

  • Teapot Styles — Electric

    You read that right: electric teapots. Sure there are tons of electric kettles, but electric teapots are a little less well-known. Apparently, they were the rage at one time but are now found on ebay.com and in consignment shops — which is where I found mine just recently. I named him “Ed.” When you search… Continue reading

  • Review of Scottish Breakfast Tea from The English Tea Store

    Type of tea: Black Loose or bagged: Loose Recommended steep time: 3-8 minutes, depending on preferred strength One of the teas featured in a list of teas I would like to explore more, Scottish Breakfast tea from the English Tea Store is a bold, strong black tea without flavouring or scenting. It can be brewed… Continue reading

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  • The Tea Trolley

    “Clang! Clang! Clang went the trolley…” sang Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis. But it was definitely not a tea trolley. It was just some big, noisy contrivance that ran along rails laid down in the streets of St. Louis and that had a loud bell on it that was rung when the… Continue reading

  • Recent and Upcoming Tea Books 8

    Arguably one of the first books to truly take tea seriously, James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Lover’s Treasury came out in 1982 and predated the relatively recent upswing of interest in “fine” teas. If you’re looking for a copy of this book, it can seem a little confusing but (if I’ve got my story straight) it’s… Continue reading

  • Can You Get a Premium Silver Needle Tea from India?

    Some of us tend to think of Silver Needle as the sole purveyance of the Fujian Province in China (see an earlier article comparing versions). But is that just tea snobbery or tea ignorance or maybe even a bad tea experience? In my case it could be all three. Sigh! Fortunately, I am always eager… Continue reading

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  • Tea Journeys

    I’ve written a lot about travelling with tea, but what about tea that travels? There is, of course, a lot of tea that gets shipped en masse across the world as imports and exports; tea is a popular drink across the world, and most of the tea in Europe and the United States is shipped in from… Continue reading

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  • If Your Teapot Could Talk…

    I’ve been exploring some of the many teapot styles available to all us tea lovers out there and got a comment back about a treasured teapot in which many a fine cuppa had been steeped and if only that teapot could talk. Well, that, of course, sets the mind to wondering: if your teapot could… Continue reading

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