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Cooking with Flavored Teas — A Real Trend
Using flavored teas as an ingredient in recipes is becoming a real trend. Considering the bits of fruit, flower petals, and spices in these teas, this trend seems only natural since these items are used for cooking anyway. The tea just adds that “something extra.” A number of recipes have been featured on this blog… Continue reading
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Glass Teapots – More Than Just a Visual Gadget
People starting to dive into the higher orders of tea preparation or studying the Chinese tea ceremony (Gong Fu Cha) will often respond with some curiosity to the obviously omnipresent, while seemingly redundant procedure of letting the tea liquor pass through a glass vessel on its way from the actual teapot to the final drinking… Continue reading
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Tea Is Tops with Natural Foods Shoppers
What are “natural” foods? Hmmm. If there was ever a term that brought to mind the phrase “buyer beware,” it’s that one. There’s apparently no clear definition for “natural,” as it relates to food, but that doesn’t keep grocery shoppers from gravitating toward foods that are perceived as such. As one tea news site reported… Continue reading
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On the Merits of Blending Your Own Tea
[Editor’s note: the following article uses the term “blend” to refer to both blended and flavored teas, which are actually two very different things as shown in this other article on our blog.] There are a lot of tea vendors out there who offer a blend-your-own-tea option, but how useful is this, really? Customisation is… Continue reading
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5 Teas to Get You Through June
This is the month that finishes out Spring and heads into Summer. It’s a time to plant and tend crops and gardens, to celebrate Dads everywhere, for kids to celebrate being off from school, and for you to wrap up your first half of the year projects. Let’s see what tea can do for us… Continue reading
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A Little More Smoke
I’ve written about smoky teas a number of times in these pages, mostly discoursing about how much I didn’t like them. My latest opus on this topic is here. Once upon a time you would not have heard a good word pass from my lips about smoky teas. Not that it was for lack of… Continue reading
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Tea in the Movies — “Three Strangers”
Being a bit of a movie buff, I tend to watch those black and white classics, and recently caught a very interesting tea connection in one of them. The movie Three Strangers had a rather oblique reference to something that lovers of fine teas would recognize quite readily. The basic plot: A woman lures two… Continue reading
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Tea or Coffee Reigns Supreme in the UK – Which Is It?
So, which is more popular in the United Kingdom – coffee or tea? Well, that’s an easy one. After all, the United Kingdom might not be the place where tea drinking was invented, but they certainly spared no enthusiasm when it came to adopting the practice. But’s it’s not quite that simple. Or at least… Continue reading
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3 Ways to Have a Tea Time Picnic
Summer is fast approaching, but even here in springtime, the urge to be in the great outdoors is irresistible. For us tea lovers, that means putting on a tea time picnic. There are three basic approaches: 1 Take along store-bought bottled tea To me, this is the very bottom of the proverbial barrel. No offense… Continue reading
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The Poetry of Tea Names
If you haven’t noticed yet, let me direct your attention to the fact that many tea names are comparatively bland and utilitarian. Let’s leave aside for now any names that have to do with a specific tea merchant such as Twinings, PG Tips, and the like, and focus on some of the rest. Perhaps one… Continue reading
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