2014
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The Tea, Fruit and Cheese Plate
When considering a tea party or maybe just a tea for one, consider skipping the pettifors and making a fruit and cheese plate instead. The fruit and cheese plate is not just for wine. With an abundance of wonderful quality teas that hit different notes on your palate embracing a wide variety of flavor profiles,… Continue reading
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Which Is Better – Orthodox Style or CTC Style Tea?
Forget politics, religion, taxes, and other topics that are typically the subject of debates around the water cooler (such as why that line backer made that move in the second half of the first quarter of that football game). The debate over whether Orthodox style tea is better than CTC style tea is popping up… Continue reading
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Black Tea – Meet Green Tea
Variety is the spice of life. It’s a somewhat overused phrase, but when it comes to tea drinking it’s true. I’m a black tea drinker first and foremost, and there’s nothing I like more than a good Assam. But I also like to mix things up with other varieties of black tea from time to… Continue reading
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The Push Is on for Artisanal Teas
The push is on for artisanal teas (usually marketed as “artisan teas”). A quick online search popped up thousands of hits and a number of tea vendors who even use the words “artisan” and “artisanal” in their company name. Marketing gimmick? Possibly. But that is not to say that artisanal teas aren’t worth a bit… Continue reading
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Where Do the British Get Their Tea?
So where do those tea-swilling British get all of the millions of cups of tea that they put away in the course of a day? Once upon a time the answer to that was a simple one. They got it from China, which for quite some time was pretty much the only game in town.… Continue reading
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5 Heartfelt February Teas Not to Miss!
The second month of the year is beginning, and that “special day” with your special someone is just one of the important occasions this month where tea will fit in perfectly. Actually, many of you are like me in that you see every day as an occasion for tea. Bravo! Even so, here are five… Continue reading
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Thoughts on a Nearly Empty Tea Cabinet
Every now and then I run across a site where a tea person is sharing photos of their stash. The people who take these photos seem to have the most impressive tea cabinets because, after all, what would be the point of sharing photos of a box or two of tea bags? It’s a popular… Continue reading
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5 Ways to Pamper Yourself with Tea
Well, the first month of the New Year is over, and your list of resolutions is probably laying in a wastebasket, lining a birdcage, or got used to light a fire in the fireplace when your power went out during that “attack of the giant polar vortex.” Hopefully, you had a chance to implement some… Continue reading
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Experiments on Tea, Circa 1825
I don’t claim to be an expert on the science of tea, and yet I’d venture to say that we know quite a bit more about this sort of thing than we did a few centuries ago. But as far back as 1825 – and probably even earlier – scientists were bravely forging ahead, trying… Continue reading
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Why There Is No Such Thing as Tea Snobbery
The term “tea snobbery” makes me cringe. Yet it pops up online regularly, usually when someone has suffered what he/she perceives to be a slight from someone else. I have used the term “snobbery” tongue-in-cheek in several articles in the past, but as far as I’m concerned there is no such thing as “tea snobbery.”… Continue reading
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