For some tea drinkers the vast number of options provided by the hundreds or even thousands of unflavored varieties are more than enough to keep their taste buds satisfied. The addition of various herbs, spices and fruit flavors allows for a nearly infinite number of combinations, but there are several flavored teas that have become …
Month: January 2010
Wandering in Tea Land
Just as Alice had adventures in Wonderland, I’m wandering in tea land, searching for new tea experiences. With so many choices, tea drinkers can wander in tea land for years, trying one after another and never the same one twice (if that’s what they want). Different colors of tea. Different variations within each color. Each …
Brewing Tea Gongfu Style
By Stephanie Harkins [reposted from our sister blog] The Gongfu tea ceremony, also known as the Kungfu tea ceremony, literally means “Way of tea brewing with great skill”. The ceremony itself a Chinese method of brewing teas. Usually Oolong tea, which is a type of tea between green and black tea, or Pu-erh tea, which …
Welcoming Guests into Your Home with Tea
When you have guests coming over to your house - whether expected or unexpected - tea provides not only a way of welcoming them warmly, but also refreshment and topics of conversation. Because guests more often than not stop into your house on short notice, it's a good idea to have your guest tea supplies …
Poo Poo Puerh
Puerh, a variety of Chinese tea produced in Yunnan province, has become considerably more popular in recent years with tea enthusiasts and collectors in the West. Many aged varieties of puerh tea can be very rare, with a price tag to match, but there may be no more unusual one than the curious variety sometimes known …
Lady Londonderry Tea & “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
There is, perhaps, nothing so impractical a food as gummy bears. A food that exists for the sheer pleasure of the mouth; for the taste, the texture, and the experience of the moment. The intrinsic value of gummy bears is exactly what they are created for, and that which makes them just a little bit …
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Tea Recipe — “Tea-ramisu”
Tiramisu is one of my favorite desserts, so full of fluffy sweet mascarpone cheese goodness and light genoise cake. My only problem? Expresso. This highly popular Italian dessert cake is traditionally created using several alternating layers of a light custard - mixed with the Italian cream cheese mascarpone - and layers of coffee (usually expresso) …
Tea Book Review — “Cha Dao”
By A.C. Cargill Sipping tea and reading a book about tea — what could better epitomize the “tea life”? That’s what I thought when the publisher of a new tea book asked if I would like to review a copy. The book title (as it appears on the spine of the cover) is Cha Dao: …
Tea Reheating — To Do or Not to Do
We’ve all probably faced the tea reheating dilemma: Do we reheat a cupful that’s cooled or not? Picture this: You’ve laid out what amounts to a significant supply of cash on some very nice tea* (Darjeeling, Pu-erh, Silver Needles, a Flowering Tea, etc.). You’ve just steeped a perfect potful of this tea and are brimming …
British and American Tea Habits
Most of us know that tea-drinking, for us Americans, began somewhere in England. We know our history well enough to know that our founding fathers and their compatriots even threw their beloved tea leaves in the Boston Harbor in protest of the taxation that King George put on it. But how do tea-drinking habits differ …
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