Preparing Tea and Herbals
How to properly prepare teas and herbals.
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Tea Takes TEAmwork!
How do you get tea leaves from the bush to the cup? With TEAmwork, of course! The old saying is still true: “There is strength in numbers.” Setting aside the issue of labor and treatment of workers on tea plantations (also called tea gardens) as serious as these things are, I want to celebrate all Continue reading
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Cooling Down with Hot Tea?
Although Americans drink about eighty percent of their tea iced rather than hot, for hot tea drinkers the arrival of summer can be bad news. Although it may be nice to gulp down some iced green tea when parched and overheated, it is just not the same as slowly savouring a cup of hot tea. Continue reading
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Introduction to Hong Kong Tea
The inspiration for this article came when my parents visited Hong Kong for several weeks to visit family and have a holiday. When I spoke with them to see how they were getting on, my mum said to me she couldn’t wait to get to Australia to see me. A smile graced my face until Continue reading
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Simon’s Crumbs
At some point everyone who enters the realm of estate and single-source tea – that is to say, good tea – encounters the leaf debate: Is whole-leaf tea the best form for making the best tea? The purist’s argument goes that broken leaves have too many surfaces that allow all the tasty and aromatic oils Continue reading
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The Mechanics of Cold Brewing Tea
There are any number of ways to whip up a cup of tea these days, and we’ve commented on several of them in these pages. They range from the tried and true method of heating water with a teakettle (or microwave) and pouring it over a tea bag or loose tea leaves to a high-tech Continue reading
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Cooking with Tea: Just Peachy!
I was in the farmer’s market the other day and overheard someone say that they weren’t going to buy peaches because they’d had so many that they were sick of them. Huh? Sick of them? How can anyone not want to eat as many beautiful peaches as possible during their short growing season? Are there Continue reading
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Tea and Math
Tea and math are not usually two items that go together in the same sentence. In fact, knowing how averse to math some folks are, I almost titled this article something like “tea by the numbers” or “counting on tea.” However, that would have driven away those averse to incredibly bad punnery. Sigh! Believe it Continue reading
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Tea Water: To Microwave or Not?
To microwave or not to microwave water for tea? That is the question. You don’t have to look hard to find people who have strong opinions about this issue. But if you’re trying to find cold hard facts, you’re going to have to look a lot harder. There doesn’t seem to be any consensus on Continue reading
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Some Pros and Cons of Tea Concentrates
A tea vendor commented recently online that they were dropping tea concentrates from their product line-up and going with powdered forms only. Their chief justification for this action was a very sensible one: save on shipping costs. However, it got me to thinking about that and other pros and cons of tea concentrates. Let’s face Continue reading
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