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Are Those Nostalgic Teawares Worthwhile?
Sometimes a “blast from the past” is great and gives you a chance to relive those “happy days.” Other times that blast ends up exploding your notions about “the good old days” instead, making you realize how good these new days are. Nostalgic teawares can do both, as I experienced recently with a certain tea… Continue reading
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How to Serve Tea in Bed
Whether you are caring for an invalid or treating your spouse or “special someone” to a bit of pampering, knowing how to serve tea in bed can make all the difference in the enjoyment of that occasion. Essential Ingredients This is going to sound like a total no-brainer, but sometimes even the obvious needs to… Continue reading
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Pairing Teas with Fall Food Favorites
Pairing tea and foods in the way that brings out the best of each can be tricky. Add to that the strong flavors that burst on the scene during the Fall season. If your teas can’t hold their own and work with, not against, those strong flavors, you’ll be in for a horrific “battle of… Continue reading
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Seasonal Tea Flavors from Top Brands
Every year around this time the various name brand teas come out with specially flavored teas to fit the holiday mood in the air. We present a few that can get you started. Twinings Christmas Tea — A gift in a teabag! Great either on its own or with milk and sugar. The blend starts… Continue reading
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Teapot Styles — Christmas Cheer
Snowmen and Santas and Evergreens, oh my! Teapots with Christmas designs won’t lead you on a yellow brick road through a haunted forest and up to the city of Oz to meet a wizard, but they will say, “There’s no place like home … there’s no place like home … for the holidays!” And the… Continue reading
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3 Perfect Teas for Your Thanksgiving Feast
Last year I listed teas for your Thanksgiving holiday tea time and the year before that I wrote about starting your Thanksgiving plans with tea. So you’re probably wondering what three teas did I miss or are there new teas out there? Read on to find out! The key to serving teas with your Thanksgiving… Continue reading
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Tea Kettle Philosophy — Sibling Rivalry
The kettle is on (a recent survey showed that about 30% of regular tea drinkers use a kettle on the stove to heat water), the teapot is prepped, and my mind has some time once again to drift into reverie, tending toward the philosophic variety. The idea of sibling rivalry comes to mind, especially with… Continue reading
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5 More Tea Time Faux Pas
Tea time is for enjoyment, but being on your best behavior is good, too. It makes things more pleasant for everyone. Having explored some rather … uh … well … inappropriate tea time behavior in previous articles (10 Egregious Tea Time Behaviors and Top 5 Tea Time Faux Pas), I am expanding on the list… Continue reading
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Tea Quiz: What’s in This Tea?
Time for another tea quiz, all you fellow tea lovers. Let’s see how it goes. This time around it’s all flavored teas (sometimes misnamed as “tea blends”) where you need to identify not the tea itself but the “stuff” added to it. First, the question in the title can be said several different ways. There’s… Continue reading
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Tea and the Old-Time Gas Station
Businesses doing things with care, giving attention to the tasks and to their customers — it all seems to have passed away. Everything is rush-rush, self-serve (like those annoying automated check-out lanes in stores), and somewhat homogenized customer service wise. That can include service at the tea shops. What brought all this to mind was… Continue reading
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