Preparing Tea and Herbals
How to properly prepare teas and herbals.
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Read Your Tea’s Label
Whether you’re trying a new tea or revisiting one that you haven’t had for awhile, check out the vendor’s label on the package or, if there isn’t one, their information about the tea on their web site. Even for teas with which you’re familiar, information about the tea could have changed. I have noticed this… Continue reading
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10 Lessons I’ve Learned About Tea
I’m not one of those people who have been drinking tea since birth. As a matter of fact, I’ve only been a tea drinker for a relatively short period of time, about ten percent of my life. But over the course of the past few years I’ve been doing my best to make up for… Continue reading
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Automatic Tea Makers — The Best of the Rest
Nowadays, there are a number of tea-making gadgets on the market whose makers have sought to automate the process to as great a degree as possible. While they can be quite useful, they also tend to be pricey, and tea purists often look down their noses at them. But the notion of an automatic teamaker… Continue reading
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Making the Switch from Bagged to Loose Tea
Many of us tea drinkers start out with the proverbial tea bag and a mug of hot water when we make our first forays into drinking tea. Often, this is due to influences at home or from other tea drinkers. Mainly, it is a result of the extreme popularity of tea bags as a convenient… Continue reading
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Some Like It Hot
During a vacation several years ago, I found myself fussing with an in-room electric kettle that insisted on turning off long before the water came to a boil. My traveling companion was cross, noting that he liked to drink his tea as close to “boiling hot” as possible. In the months that followed, I began… Continue reading
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Tea Dilemma — The Awkward Bit
It can happen — that tea dilemma — and usually does when you least expect it. You go to pour a cuppa from the teapot, anticipating that flow of fragrant, delicious tea to fill your cup, but … agh! you barely get enough for a good swallow or two. That’s the “awkward bit” leftover from… Continue reading
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Developing Tea “Color Vision”
Color is an important element in the world around us, whether it’s the color of the paint on the walls and other décor of your humble abode, the colors of nature changing from season to season, or the color of the tea you’re drinking. You just need to develop your “color vision” to truly appreciate… Continue reading
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Tea and Scents-ability
The enjoyment of tea encourages us to engage all of our senses. Look at the shape and colour of the dry leaves, watch them unfurl and swirl in the hot water. Feel the cool smoothness of gyokuro leaves or the nubbly texture of a Buddha’s hand oolong leaf. Listen to the water boiling in the… Continue reading
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Roundtable Topic: Sweeteners and Tea
This is the first of what may be a series of “roundtable topics.” Several writers who contribute to this blog will be weighing in on various topics related to tea. We encourage you to join in with your comments. Originally, we were all going to discuss which sweeteners worked best in a particular tea. There… Continue reading
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“T” Is Not Just a Letter of the Alphabet
A, B, C, D… the alphabet is great for tea! And the best letter is “T” for without it, how could we have tea? (Yes, I know, we also need an “E” and an “A” — bear with me here!) There are lots of words for this beverage steeped from the leaves of Camellia Sinensis:… Continue reading
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