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Farewell and Goodbye, Dear Chatsford Teapot!
Do you remember the first teapot that you really loved using? Maybe it was the perfect shape, or the perfect size, or your favourite colour. Whatever made it special, you used it just about every day. Maybe you still do. My first teapot love was a Chatsford four-cupper. I bought it almost twenty years ago… Continue reading
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Cooking with Tea: Just Peachy!
I was in the farmer’s market the other day and overheard someone say that they weren’t going to buy peaches because they’d had so many that they were sick of them. Huh? Sick of them? How can anyone not want to eat as many beautiful peaches as possible during their short growing season? Are there… Continue reading
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Organizing a Tea Room Crawl
Can you think of anything more fun than getting a group of tea lovers together to share a good cuppa? How about many good cuppas at several different locations? Yes, we’re talking about a tea room crawl! In the late 1800s, the term pub crawl was coined to described a bunch of “gentlemen” who’d start… Continue reading
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Is the Victorian-style Tea Room Obsolete?
I often receive reviews at TeaGuide where the reviewer notes that they’ve just made their annual visit to a tea room. Whether it’s a Mother’s Day theme tea or mom’s birthday tea with her three daughters who flew in from out of town, I always kind of cringe when I read this. Annual? As in:… Continue reading
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Kit-tea Collectibles
Cat lovers are suckers. Really. Not only do we put up with all kinds of kitty nonsense, like the recent demolition of my cherry-red teapot – knocked off the counter by Panther chasing Skyler – but we happily fill up every nook and cranny of our homes with collections of pretty much anything and everything… Continue reading
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Blue Tea vs Grey Tea
When we moved from the New York City area to semi-rural South Carolina a few years ago, it was an adjustment to say the least. I had to get used to “y’all” instead of “you guys.” Instead of Italian restaurants and all-night diners on every corner there was something called a “meat-and-three,” which is just… Continue reading
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What’s in a Name: Tea Rooms v. Tea Rooms
Oh joy! A new tea room opened in your neighbourhood and you can’t wait to stop in for afternoon tea or a great cuppa. You make your reservation, grab a friend, and off you go. When you get there, you find that their idea of “afternoon tea” is what you call lunch, and the only… Continue reading
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Here Kit-tea Kit-tea!
There’s something about tea that attracts cat lovers. Or maybe there’s something about cats that attracts tea lovers. Clearly there’s something … because so many of us dearly love them both. It’s certainly not because tea-drinking is easier with cats around. Cats sniff or bat at the tea leaves, even try to eat them. (Although… Continue reading
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Review of English Tea Store Darjeeling White Tips
Basically there are two types of white tea leaves available to the consumer: the kind with long, thin silvery (sometimes downy) leaves, and the kind with leaves of varied sizes and colours, sort of like what you might find on a forest floor. The catalogue photo for this tea depicts the former, while these Darjeeling… Continue reading
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Cooking with Tea: Fruit Kissel
If you’re a fruit lover, there’s no better time of year than midsummer. That’s when you’ll find berries of all kinds, along with plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines – and, if you’re very lucky, the last harvest of sweet cherries. After you’ve had your fill of eating them in salads and out of hand, try this… Continue reading
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