Preparing Tea and Herbals
How to properly prepare teas and herbals.
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Water Water Everywhere
Tea and water – it’s a match made in heaven. You can’t have a cup of tea without water and, by the same token, you’re not about to have a good cup of tea without good water. But what constitutes good water from a tea drinker’s perspective? One of the first commentators on the critical… Continue reading
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Are Loose Teas Straining Your Love for Tea?
Steeping and then straining your loose leaf tea can be an inconvenience sometimes, but the resulting tea “liquor” is worth it. The leaves get full contact with the water and lots of room to expand, releasing their ingredients into it. But in our ever-faster-paced world, where each moment counts, are steeping loose teas and having… Continue reading
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Let Your “Tea Nose” Do the Talking
Tea drinkers don’t always realize what an asset their nose is for selecting and savoring tea. Your sense of smell is probably 70% of your enjoyment of foods and beverages, especially tea. With thousands of blends, those aromas can tell you a lot about how well you’ll like the taste of the steeped tea. Sometimes,… Continue reading
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Most Unlikely
A large portion of our kitchen is occupied by my tea and its paraphernalia. And tea does not always remain in the teacup, but sometimes makes it onto our plate. Even though I cook with tea, I am often surprised at the other unexpected places that I find my favorite beverage. Sometimes, its in other… Continue reading
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The Great Bag Debate
My grandfather came to the US via port-of-call in Boston. He left Birmingham as a young man and sailed to America to find a better life. When he came to the US, the tea he knew was loose, despite the fact that teabags were invented in 1907. Teabags were initially made from Chinese silk and… Continue reading
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Why My Teapot Loves PG Tips
My six-cup “Blue Betty” teapot is in love with PG Tips. So are my tastebuds. And my hubby’s tastebuds. It’s a love affair that has grown warmer over the years. For a tea that’s been on the market since the 1930s, PG Tips has continued to stay one of the favorite teas around. Brooke, Bond… Continue reading
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The Tea Bag Debate
I recently attended a tea bag tasting, as you may have realized from my article about how to do so. I found it interesting that I was the only tea blogger to attend. The other bloggers were more general foodies. Now, I did not have access to the invitation list. But I had a theory… Continue reading
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Green Tea to Go
The ideal tea situation for me means sitting at my table outside, listening to birds chirp as I pour small cups from my cast iron tea pot, the leaves having plenty of room for their gentle unfurling and floating. But of course, the reality quite often falls short of the ideal, and I’ve got to… Continue reading
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Comparing Tea Bags
I recently attended an event where, for the first time, I learned about comparing tea bags. I’d done loose leaf tastings before, but, of course, there were some obvious differences. We did comparisons across several brands of similar price and market (grocery store shelf teas). It is important to compare apples to apples for a… Continue reading
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Loose Tea on the Go
Are you a tea lover who wishes they could take their lovely tea stash along with them when they leave the house? There are many ways to be able to take your loose tea with you for convenient brewing outside of the home. There are three ways that make traveling with loose tea easy and… Continue reading
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