Tea is tea and coffee is coffee and never the twain shall meet. Or shall they? Well, if the truth must be told sometimes they come pretty close. While some tea drinkers wouldn't touch coffee with a ten-foot stirring stick and there are coffee drinkers who feel the same way about tea, there are also …
Month: March 2011
Tea and the Lady with the Fly
What’s the connection between tea and the lady with the fly? Well, first of all, the former is a beverage that has been around for millennia, and the latter two are characters in a silly albeit entertaining little poem. For those of you not familiar with the poem, it starts out with a poor old …
Tea and Crumpets
There are so many delicious ways to transition from tea the drink to 'tea' the snack or small meal; all it takes are a few simple additions. At the lighter end of things there are biscuits or, if that isn't going to satisfy your sweet tooth, there is the ever popular slice of cake. If …
Cadbury Easter Candy: A Holiday Treat
There are few things that I enjoy more than hunting for Easter treats, particularly when the treats include a little (or a lot) of chocolate. Even better is when the treats are something that I can't get at my corner grocery store, but are best classified as a "special delivery". Fortunately for those of us …
Tea Kettle Philosophy — The Flat Tire
Every day (and often several times a day) hubby and I take turns “kettle sitting” — staying by the stove until the water boils in the kettle. The teapot is usually prepped already and waiting for that water to begin its magic of drawing from tea leaves a wondrous essence that becomes tea. One day, …
My Love of Tea – A Review
I have been writing about tea for almost a year now and I’ve ranted on about a lot of stuff. There is, however, one thing I’ve never done and that is a review. It’s not for want of trying. I drink different teas, I have opinions on them, and I would often like to share …
Teawares Card Game
Do your teawares have a secret life, that is, recreational activities they engage in when they’re not busy steeping tea for you? Yes, it sounds silly and downright improbable, after all, these are inanimate, insentient objects. Right? Well, we thought so, too, until… Ever have one of those nights when you try and try and …
The Poetry of Tea
I can't honestly say that I've never written a poem about tea and I have a feeling that I probably never will. But I can see how it could happen. Every once in a while a tea comes along that's sufficiently amazing that it could conceivably inspire a few lines of verse. And for that …
Blending Your Leftover Teas
What do you do with all of those tidbits left in your various bags of loose leaf teas? A teaspoon full of a malty Assam. A pinch of Keemun Panda. And so on. Well, if you’re like me, the last thing you want to do is toss them out. That would be tea sacrilege. And …
Review of Mim Estate Darjeeling from the English Tea Store
Name: Mim Estate Darjeeling 2nd Flush Tea Brand: English Tea Store Type: Black tea Form: Loose leaf Review: Mim Estate Darjeeling is a ridiculously inexpensive (on sale now for $4.69 for 4 ounces) Darjeeling tea sold under the English Tea Store's private label. The dry leaf is small and varicolored with a few twigs …
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