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Tea Review – English Tea Store Black Peach
When I drink tea, I like to taste the tea and nothing else. Everybody has their own preferences and I’m not saying my way is better than anyone else’s. But I like my tea untainted by any such substances as milk, sugar, lemon, sauerkraut (just seeing if you’re paying attention) and the like – the… Continue reading
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Recipe for Tea Caramel Swirl Cheese Cake
At first glance your eyes dance a little as your tongue starts to salivate. Your lips start to quiver with anticipation. Sweet creamy cheese cake with a tea infused caramel sauce entwined together in such harmony, creating a symphony in your mouth. 2/3 cup sugar 2 ½ cups of heavy cream 1 tbsp gold needle… Continue reading
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5 More Tea Time Faux Pas
Tea time is for enjoyment, but being on your best behavior is good, too. It makes things more pleasant for everyone. Having explored some rather … uh … well … inappropriate tea time behavior in previous articles (10 Egregious Tea Time Behaviors and Top 5 Tea Time Faux Pas), I am expanding on the list… Continue reading
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Tea Quiz: What’s in This Tea?
Time for another tea quiz, all you fellow tea lovers. Let’s see how it goes. This time around it’s all flavored teas (sometimes misnamed as “tea blends”) where you need to identify not the tea itself but the “stuff” added to it. First, the question in the title can be said several different ways. There’s… Continue reading
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Tea and the Old-Time Gas Station
Businesses doing things with care, giving attention to the tasks and to their customers — it all seems to have passed away. Everything is rush-rush, self-serve (like those annoying automated check-out lanes in stores), and somewhat homogenized customer service wise. That can include service at the tea shops. What brought all this to mind was… Continue reading
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Even More Strange Research About Tea
If you’ve ever doubted that there’s a great deal of offbeat research going on at any given moment, then consider that there’s at least one magazine dedicated to writing about it. That’s the Annals of Improbable Research, which is published by the same organization that sponsors The Ig Nobel Prizes, which “are intended to celebrate… Continue reading
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How to Have a Quiet Autumn Tea Moment
Maybe it’s the longer hours of darkness. Maybe it’s the cooler temperatures, especially at night. Or maybe it’s all the beauty of nature around us with the leaves changing colors against skies that are sometimes crisply blue and sometimes full of clouds thick and full like great wads of gray cotton. Whatever the reason, this… Continue reading
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The Imitation Teasmade — Building a Better Mousetrap!
Normally, I consider tea gadgetry to be the province of fellow tea blogger Bill Lengeman (at least, as far as this blog is concerned). Every now and then, though, I come across something online or buy something in a store for my expanding collection (such as “Ed” the electric teapot) and can’t resist looking into… Continue reading
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Teas of the World: Sikkim Teas
India is large and varied, with many languages, cultures, and languages. Crowned by the Himalayas along the northern border, the country stretches down to the Laccadive Sea and the neighboring island nation of Sri Lanka. As expected, tea cultivation reaches even to one of the newest states in the country. About Sikkim The state of… Continue reading
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Tea Review – English Tea Store Nonsuch Estate Nilgiri
I have mixed feelings about India’s teas. If I had to pick a variety of tea that’s disappointed me the most over the years, I’d go with Darjeeling. I’ve only been drinking tea for about eight years now and in the early days I found myself quite impressed with the unique flavor profile of this… Continue reading
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