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  • “Basic White” Teawares

    You can easily design a teatime full of vibrant color—from the rich reds, deep greens, and sparkling golds of the Christmas holidays to the brilliant crimson of Valentine’s Day, the bright emerald greens for St. Patrick’s Day, and the delicate pastels (pink, baby blue, yellow, and pale green) typical for Spring and Easter themes. Alternatively,… Continue reading

  • Cup-warmer Catastro-TEA!

    Do you sit your teacup on a cup-warmer to keep the tea from cooling too quickly? Well, I do and have learned the hard way why that can be a bad idea sometimes. In fact, more than once, I have had a real cup-warmer catastro-TEA! WARNING: At the end of this article is a very… Continue reading

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  • Tea Chests — Ahoy!

      Ahoy, tea mateys, get those sea chests loaded up for adventure. Oh, wait, that’s tea chests. Gee, the difference a letter makes. Never mind, though, you can load up that tea chest and have a great TEA adventure. No Dramamine needed. The tea chests of today are quite different from those of yesteryear. This… Continue reading

  • The Tea Gadget Report

    How wild, zany, outlandish, or just plain silly can modern tea gadgets get? The possibilities are probably only limited by the human imagination. Luckily, some of the designers turning out this brewing gear are incredibly imaginative—and then some! First up is the booming **novelty tea infuser** category, which always seems to capture the attention of… Continue reading

  • Coloring Up Your Teatime

    Spring is just around the corner (March 20th, according to my wall calendar), a time when color reigns supreme, at teatime and any time. While Winter is dressed in various shades of brown and whites, with some plants retaining their green even as the rest have gone bare, Spring is always an artist’s palette. Bulb… Continue reading

  • The Luxury of a Silver Tea Service

    Nowadays, with tea so common, it is hard to imagine what a luxury it must once have been. Imported from the furthest corners of the world and braving perilous sea voyages to reach us, there was a time in British history when just drinking tea itself would have marked you out as being quite well-to-do.… Continue reading

  • “Basic Black” Teawares

    Black teawares? “Drab, morose, depressing,” you say. “Classic,” I say. Audrey Hepburn was stunning as Holly Golightly in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” especially in that classic “little black dress.” Of course, Wednesday was rather morbid in “The Addams Family” (both movie and TV series). The difference? Saturation. Black as the entire color theme is funereal. Black… Continue reading

  • Tea Gadgets Revisited

    The season for giving gifts has officially come and gone but that doesn’t mean we can’t pass along some info on the latest crop of tea gadgets. Because it’s always the season for tea gadgets. For most of us, tea and rock and roll are probably not subjects that crop up in the same thought.… Continue reading

  • Even More Tea Gadgets

    The tea gadgets just keep on coming. It seems that there are more and more gizmos hitting the market every day and, as always, they are something of a mixed bag. Some can be quite useful, while others are just plain odd. For a previous roundup of unusual tea accessories, see this earlier feature on… Continue reading

  • The Ins and Outs of Tea Storage Containers

    There are lots of tea storage containers on the market, making it hard to decide which ones you need for keeping your teas at their best. Simplify the decision by knowing their ins and outs. Basically, some things should be kept IN these containers and some things should be kept OUT of them. Of course,… Continue reading

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