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Get Social: Organize a Tea Swap
One of the great American Christmas traditions is the cookie swap: Rather than driving yourself nuts whipping up countless varieties of holiday cookies, a group of friends arranges for each of them to make just one kind of cookie in sufficient quantity for herself (or himself) and friends. Each person bakes up a different type… Continue reading
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The Other Tea Parties
Recent political movements aside, there’s no question that the mother of all tea parties was the one that took place in Boston a few centuries ago. That was on December 16, 1773, to be precise. As noted in this article a little while back, it’s an event that recently gained its own spiffy new tourist… Continue reading
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When Your Tea Kettle Fools You
Accurate water temperature can make the difference in the taste of your tea, but your tea kettle can fool you. Then, you end up with understeeped black tea that needed boiling water or oversteeped green tea that needed water heated to around 180° F. A tea lover’s nightmare! I discovered this foolery when my Asta… Continue reading
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Stash Tea and Me
I came to tea rather late in life, having discovered its many and varied charms less than a decade ago. But back in the good old days, when I was just beginning to make my acquaintance with this beverage, I experimented with quite a number of varieties from the good people at Stash Tea. Some… Continue reading
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Getting Ghoulish for Your Halloween Tea Time
As this globe we live on repeats another orbit round the Sun, we come again to Halloween and, of course, that means some spooky, eerie, and downright scary tea times! Cats always figure pretty big at Halloween, but as Janis Badarau also points out, they are always part of tea time. So, cats and Halloween… Continue reading
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5 Ginger Teas and Infusions for Autumn
As the October days roll on, crisp air and chilly winds have become the norm. While September might have provided you with a bit of a weather challenge, October is firmly Autumn. It is around this time of year that I find myself tending towards teas with more warming flavours and ginger is top among… Continue reading
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Teapot
You’ve all heard that little ditty “Twinkle, twinkle, little star…” but have you heard about twinkly teapots? Yes, twinkly. The quality of twinkliness is not in every teapot. Those cute little Yixing (pronounced “eesheeng”) clay teapots are usually of a fairly matte or even flat finish. Some ceramic teapots also have a softer appearance due… Continue reading
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“Indian Tea: Its Culture and Manufacture” by Claud Bald
The Indian tea industry was not yet a century old, in 1908, when Claud Bald published (the second edition of) Indian Tea: Its Culture and Manufacture, but it was doing quite nicely for itself. The first forays to assess the Assam region for its tea growing potential didn’t really get rolling until about eighty years… Continue reading
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5 Teas Perfect for Cooler Weather
Cooler weather means more hot tea, and that means teas that have a more robust flavor that can take the heat. I’ve listed five of my fave cool weather teas and, just to show they’re appealing to others, too, I’ve included some customer comments for each one (typos and all). Check ’em out if you… Continue reading
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Celebrating Autumn: Applesauce Tea Loaf
One of the most enjoyable rituals of autumn is apple-picking. Every year around the end of September we choose a day to head over to a local pick-your-own orchard. Then we spend an hour or two out in the fresh, cool sunshine, scouting out our favourite apple varieties, plucking the fruit off the trees and… Continue reading
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