Tea Enjoyment
Moments, stories, traditions, books to read with tea, etc., showing how tea is part of life.
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Lapsang Souchong and “Fahrenheit 451″
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which books burn. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to burn those offensive and illegal items. Fahrenheit 212 is the temperature at which water boils. Pour that over some leaves of Lapsang Souchang tea, and you’ve got the perfect complement… Continue reading
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Observations of a Tea Drinker: Lizard on a Rock
By A.C. Cargill Our vacation last year was spent driving in a big loop from our home on the East Coast to visit friends in several states and then back here again. Tucson, Arizona, was one of our stops (it was a big loop). We visited friends and dined with them at the Tohono Chul… Continue reading
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Fall Is Just Around the Corner
By A.C. Cargill The temperatures are still in the upper 80s, the grass still needs to be mowed, the leaves on the trees are still a glorious chlorophyll-induced green. So why do I have that “fall feeling”? It’s an undeniable urge to rake leaves (gasp!), start planning for Halloween, cook up a nice acorn squash… Continue reading
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Blueberry Herbal and “Journey to the Center of the Earth”
Jules Verne’s classic story, Journey to the Center of the Earth, is a panoramic tale of voyage and fortitude. It’s also a mixture of charm and density of detail, to which Blueberry Herbal is the perfect tea-companion. In the novel, the story is told by Axel, the nephew of Professor Otto Lidenbrock. He reluctantly accompanies… Continue reading
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Tea in the Movies
Confession time: I’m a movie addict. Romance, comedy, drama, mystery, historic, sci-fi, romantic comedy, dramatic romance, mysterious sci-fi, romantic historic, sci-fi comedy… well, you get the idea! We can learn a lot about life and lifestyles from these movies. Some try to depict how we really live. Others show how they think we live. Still… Continue reading
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Tea Moments — The Kids Are in School
The school supplies have been bought, packed neatly into the kids’ backpacks, and await their chance to help your kids be the sterling scholars you know them to be. Your kids are outfitted in the latest “must have” fashions and equipped with the latest gadgets. These are all signs of one thing: It’s “Back to… Continue reading
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Tea Taster – A Tea Lover’s Dream Job
By William I. Lengeman III To many of us tea-lovers, tea-taster might seem like the ultimate profession, a vocation as desirable as the fabled mattress tester. Tea tasting may conjure images of a crackling fire, a plate of delicacies and bottomless wells of fine tea, but in reality tasting tea for a living is hard… Continue reading
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Observations of a Tea Drinker: The Cardinal’s Nest
Springtime brings out the birdwatcher in me and combines well with my life as a tea aficionado. There’s nothing like grabbing a steaming cupful and staring out the kitchen window or patio doors to see these feathered fliers flitting among the ever-increasing palette of blooms in our garden or thorny roses on the trellis against… Continue reading
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Yorkshire Gold and “The Island of Dr. Moreau”
The Island of Dr. Moreau is the fourth in a long list of novels by Herbert George Wells. Wells’ voice is as strong in this novel as in any of his earlier books — full of meaty imaginings and the kind of view into humanity that makes one wince. The story requires a stout tea-companion… Continue reading
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What’s All the Fuss? Part II
By Stephanie Hanson To pick up where we left off, in 1773, the Americans had become “frenetic tea drinkers.” They were also extremely independently-minded after having been largely left to their own devices since the arrival of the first settlers nearly two centuries earlier. They considered themselves British citizens, but had enjoyed a very low… Continue reading
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