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Tis the Season for Sparkly Teawares
Attention, tea lovers: Not all of the holiday sparkle is on your Christmas tree or in those department store display windows. Some of it is right in your kitchen cupboard or dining room cabinet or wherever you keep your sparkly teawares. What kind of teawares will give you that sparkle? White ones, for a start.… Continue reading
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Tea and Jam, Plain and Simple
It all began innocently. One day I was making my usual favorite afternoon tea—Darjeeling, with toast and jam. Not exotic; I like things plain and simple. I smoothed the jam—in this case orange marmalade–thick on my toast, and then found myself looking thoughtfully down into the jam jar, while I remembered reading of the idea… Continue reading
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Tea Adventure — Exotic Flowering Tea
Trying a tea for the first time is a true adventure. There’s an excitement in the air that’s hard to describe, accompanied by a dozen questions running through your mind. How do you properly brew it? Is it good quality? Will you like it? It costs how much? They’re kidding, right? And so on. Thus… Continue reading
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Review — Stash Holiday Chai
Name: Holiday Chai Brand: Stash Tea Type: Black tea, flavored Form: Paper tea bags, individually wrapped. Review: Another holiday, another chai. Since the stuff got popular back in the nineties, it seems like every tea company has a full line of chais in its range and issues additional versions during winter holiday time. I don’t… Continue reading
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Crafting the Perfect Tea Gift Basket
Want to give the gift of tea this Christmas but not sure what that should be? Tea gift baskets can be the perfect answer. Gift giving is a way to share something we like with others, give them something special we know they’ll like, or just let them know we’re thinking of them. Sometimes, workplaces… Continue reading
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Holiday Tea Gift Ideas, Part 2
Here are some more holiday tea gift ideas for the different types of tea-drinkers on your list. If the recipient doesn’t really fit a certain type, you can seldom go wrong by giving him or her a selection of teas, a teapot or a tea mug. Tea lovers always enjoy having a good supply of… Continue reading
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Review — Stash Organic MerryMint Green Tea
Name: Organic MerryMint Green Tea (included in Stash Tea’s Gold Box Gift Set) Brand: Stash Type: Green tea, flavored Form: Paper bagged tea Review: Deck the halls with boughs of wintergreen! Yes, this tea has both spearmint and peppermint added, but they barely make any impact on this blend. If you like the cold, bracing… Continue reading
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Green Tea for the Holidays
Green is one of the dominant colors for the holidays (red being the other), so why not for your tea, too? Several choices spring to mind, teas that I have tried and grown quite fond of during the past year. The first green tea that I think of now is Chai Green (a green tea… Continue reading
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Holiday Tea Gift Ideas, Part 1
If you are indecisive about your gift list, don’t despair. Here are some tea-related gift ideas for everyone from tea newbies to aficionados plus folks with special circumstances. Let me know how these work for you! 1. The Patient: A friend has just been told by her doctor to eliminate caffeine because of health problems.… Continue reading
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Tea on the Train
Traveling by train has been a symbol of adventure and, in some cases, elegance, especially when taking tea during your trip. While train travel in the U.S. has declined, it is still strong in Europe. The Orient Express, for example, was started in 1883 and still runs, serving tea to its passengers. My European train… Continue reading
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