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  • Spruce Up Old Tea with Essential Oils

    I decided to take the opportunity to revisit my tea cupboard and whilst there were some teas that had kept well despite years of storage (one of which I had written about in a previous post), there were other teas that were not as fortunate. Having enjoyed a sample of Dragonwell green tea I went… Continue reading

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  • Tea Moment — “Honey, I’m Home!”

    From the Boston Tea Party to modern day tea shops and tea rooms, we enjoy our tea moments. Often, we enjoy those moments at home in front of the TV, so much so that you could say tea and TV are part of US culture. In my early years, I watched shows where the wife… Continue reading

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  • Tea Pioneers: Thomas Twining

    Starting a business can be a tough row to hoe. Nowadays, according to the United States Small Business Adminstration about half of all small businesses here are likely to fail within the first five years. So if you managed to somehow come up with a business that were to survive for the next 300 years… Continue reading

  • Tea and the Drawing Lesson

    Starting with the basics can be a great approach in many things. You crawl before you can walk. You ride your bicycle with training wheels and eventually those wheels come off. You learn the simpler dance steps before you go for the fancy ones. And so on. This approach is the one I’ve taken when… Continue reading

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  • Organizing a Tea Tasting

    Looking for something fun to do on a grey winter’s day? Why not share the joys of tea by inviting friends and family to a tea tasting! Keep the group cozy, maybe ten people max. Ask one of your guests – one who knows how to make tea – to assist you. Choose the teas… Continue reading

  • Offbeat News & Gadgets

    The great wide world of tea is not a particularly strange one, as these things go, but there are enough offbeat tidbits of news and quirky gadgets to merit a brief piece of this sort now and again. It’s been a while since the last one so hang onto your hats. Here we go. I… Continue reading

  • Tea at the Scottish Games

    Scotland and tea — tea and Scotland. A natural combination. Just ask one of our blog writers Jess Hodges, a native of that land. The climate in Scotland is not exactly tropical, actually far from it. So hot tea is in great supply. The Scots make the most of their warm weather, though, and one… Continue reading

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  • Empty Teacup Syndrome

    When you are sipping that tea while doing other things (reading, writing, wiping runny noses, etc.), you can lose track of the level of the liquid in your teacup. You sip, set the cup down, then read/write/wipe, then sip again, and so on. If you’re not careful, you run the risk of coming down with… Continue reading

  • Special Diet Tea Time: Vegetarian/Vegan

    You’ve sent out the invitations. You’re looking forward to enjoying afternoon tea with friends or family. And then it happens … Oh no! One of my guests is a vegetarian! Maybe even a vegan! What do I do now??! First let’s understand that a vegetarian diet entails a wide variety of foods, and most of… Continue reading

  • 10 Website No-No’s for Internet Tea Stores

    With the move toward shopping online, especially for such things as tea, having a good online presence can be the only thing between you and a customer. Making a really good site that reflects truly who you are and why those customers should buy your products instead of clicking away to another site is absolutely… Continue reading

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