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  • Drinking Your Tea to the Dregs

    Awhile back I advocated avoiding the dreaded tea dregs. Those nasty bitter final drops in the teapot. Time and more tea adventures with some truly superior tea has me rethinking that position. Why waste a precious drop? Dregs can occur in any tea, from those powdered instants to the full leaf steepings. Some consider this… Continue reading

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  • What Makes Music into “Tea Music”?

    Before we get to discuss what would define music as tea music, we first need to answer the question, whether there is such thing as “tea music” at all. It seems that while music seems to be rarely composed for the particular purpose of being tea music, some of the music that is basically produced… Continue reading

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  • Tea — a Replacement for Coffee?

    A recent Tea Forum showed how those of us in North America are becoming more conscious of tea. That is, we’re not just willy-nilly grabbing that cheap teabag, dunking it in tepid water, and slurping down the resulting sorry excuse for tea. As great as all that is, I’d like to go a step further… Continue reading

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  • Celebrity Tea News

    Where would we be without our beloved celebrities? It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who once wrote, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” I’m sure there’s more than a few grains of truth to that but at least one way in which celebrities tend to come down… Continue reading

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  • Are Your Tea Towels Thirsty?

    Tea towels are handy to have around the kitchen. They suck up spills, dry our dishes, and generally keep things neat and dry. If you don’t use them enough, though, they can get a bit thirsty! Don’t panic. No one is advocating that you engage in spilling things (especially not your tea) just to save… Continue reading

  • Adding Milk to Tea

    There is a long-running, healthy debate about milk and tea (when do you add milk? Should you or shouldn’t you? How much?) and several articles on this blog have contributed their opinions on these questions. As one recent article quite rightly concludes, the bottom line is that it is really about personal preference. However, I… Continue reading

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  • 5 Teas to Get You Through May

    Ok, all you maids, time to head out for a quick wash, at least according to the nursery rhyme “The First Of May” (The fair maid who, the first of May, / Goes to the fields at break of day, / And washes in dew from the hawthorn-tree, / Will ever after handsome be.) It’s… Continue reading

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  • The Dangers of Tea Bags?

    As if we didn’t have enough to be concerned about. Tea bags? Really? There are those who would say that the easiest way to sidestep any potential dangers with tea bags is not to use them at all. Which might be a valid point and one that I can agree with, to some extent, given… Continue reading

  • What Is “Swig Tea”?

    As warmer weather approaches, the swigging of tea commences. But just what is swigging and “swig tea”? An official definition of “swig”: v. To drink (liquid) or engage in drinking liquid in great gulps. Based on the above definition, you could equate swigging to gulping, chugging, and swilling — they are all applicable for “swig… Continue reading

  • Tea Review — The English Tea Store’s Lovers Leap Estate Tea

    Ceylon tea is still something of an unknown (or perhaps lesser known these days) quantity for me, but that’s gradually starting to change as more samples start to trickle in. I sampled a few from another merchant a while back that were good but not great. Most recently I took the English Tea Store’s Organic… Continue reading

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