2014
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3 Ways to Display Those Teawares in Your Home
Teapots, teacups, sugar/creamer sets, and other teawares can tend to build up in your home. They deserve better than to be shoved into cupboards or stacked haphazardly on shelves. They deserve to be on display where they will add to the ambience. Here are three ways to maximize that quality: 1 All together in a… Continue reading
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Recipe for Tea Chocolate Cream Pie
When thinking of indulgence, what comes to mind but chocolate of course. Velvety chocolate enhanced by tea encased in a buttery pastry covered with sweet whip cream. This is a recipe sure to be devoured as soon as it is made. 3 cups milk 1 tbsp black tea (chai would work well also) 5 egg… Continue reading
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More on Water Temperature and Tea
The importance of water when it comes to the taste of your tea is a subject that has been discussed often on this tea blog and on others. Steeping techniques have been examined in the minutest detail all over the blogosphere and social media sites. So, what else is there to say? Plenty! While people… Continue reading
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Tea People: Lisa Boalt Richardson
If you want to peruse the full range of Lisa Boalt Richardson’s tea-related achievements, consult her web site here. There are quite a few of these achievements, but we’ll just touch on some of the highlights. She claims to be “one of the first 15 in the world to graduate from the Specialty Tea Institute… Continue reading
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5 Essentials for Your Easter Basket
Easter is quickly approaching. Time to think about what to include in your Easter baskets for the little ones in your life (or for yourself, even). There are five things that seem essential – that is, it just isn’t Easter without them! Here they are: 1 A Basket Actually, chocolate should be #1, but I… Continue reading
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Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea: Viewed Classically, Poetically, and Practically
If you’ve ever noted some of the weighty titles and subtitles of books that are published nowadays, rest assured that this is hardly a recent trend. Older books equaled or surpassed anything that modern-day publishers and authors can come up with. If you want proof of this then look to the subject of this article, Breakfast,… Continue reading
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5 “Hoppy” April Teas Not to Miss!
The fourth month of the year is beginning, a time of things like cute bunnies and Easter and everything blooming. A time to be very “hoppy” about tea. In recognition, here are some teas that I would tend to think of as spring-like and not to miss in April: 1 Foil-pouch protected from those April… Continue reading
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Is Puerh Tea a Health-Giving Elixir?
Once upon a time there was tea. It was black – for the most part. It was a time, here in the West, when tea and black tea were nearly synonymous. But in the last decade or so it’s green tea that’s grabbed the overwhelming share of attention. With the popularity of green tea there’s… Continue reading
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What Is Tea Scum?
Tea scum can be the bane of a steady tea drinker’s experience. And there appear to be two different kinds. One is from the tea itself and the other is from the milk that many of us add to our black teas to have that British experience. Time to find out how these come about.… Continue reading
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April in Tea History
As I research assorted and sundry articles dealing with various aspects of tea history, I’ve run across a number of important historical events that have taken place in the month of April (or more specifically on the 1st). Here are a few of them: April 1, 2813 BC Chinese emperor Shung Mung discovers tea and… Continue reading
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