Destress with green tea, suggests college columnist
Over at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls, columnist Laura Krawczyk suggests that her fellow students studying for finals add green tea to their stress-busting arsenal. Speaking of green tea and stress, here’s a video from the last Calm-a-Sutra contest: —Mellow Monk blog feed , reviews , teas , twitter , videos
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Typhoo Cuts Jobs at UK Factory
A report in the Liverpool Daily Post indicates Typhoo has cut 69 jobs at its tea factory in England. Accordng to Typhoo , layoffs are needed to cut costs and bring the company back to profitability. About 320 workers are employed at the factory in Moreton, England
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Spread Some Holiday Cheer, Bigelow Tea-Style and Shop Online for Festive Gifts from Bigelow Tea
Shopping for the holidays is easy and fun at Bigelow Tea ( www.bigelowtea.com ) with a wonderful offering of festive treats from our 2009 Holiday Gift Collection . “Our holiday gifts have been tastefully chosen and packaged with our customers in mind,” says Cindi Bigelow, President of Bigelow Tea
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Harney’s Christmas Teas
Sunday afternoon my husband came in from a trip to Barnes and Noble and said that while he was there he’d found me a treat. He said he knew I probably wouldn’t purchase this for myself at this time of year but that I’d probably like to have it, and he was right! In fact, I’ve actually picked up this gift set several times and talked myself out of it! And though I wouldn’t have gotten this set for myself, I was more than happy to get it, because I’m a real fan of both these Harney and Sons Christmas blends.
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Proper Tea Tasting Techniques
By Stephanie Harkins Tea tasting, much like wine tasting, cheese tasting or any other sampling of a food or beverage, includes utilizing all five of your senses and focusing on how the experience feels to you personally. Loose Leaf Tea By using your sense of smell, sight, taste and touch, you can not only evaluate teas accurately, but you can improve the experience of enjoying the tea that you are brewing. You may also decide to hold tea tasting parties amongst friends for fun, or even pursue a career as a professional tea taster for a large tea factory
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Proper Tea Tasting Techniques
Tea cookbook wins world award
“Cook and entertain with exotic teas from around the world,” entices Tea with a Twist , winner of the tea category in the World Cookbook Awards . The book’s back cover. Note the exquisite-sounding recipe on the top: “Scones with Crystalized Ginger and Green Tea.” —Mellow Monk blog feed , reviews , teas , twitter , videos
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O Christmas (Tea) Tree!
Over the years I’ve observed that pulling out Christmas decorations is always so much fun because you find things you had forgotten you had, and so it is with these teacup and teapot ornaments on my pink feather tree. I see ornaments from my husband, my mom, my aunt, and friends Susan, Beth, Sandra, Ellen, Elizabeth-in-Arkansas (I always think of her that way), Marilyn, Ashly, Ruth and more
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O Christmas (Tea) Tree!
Gifted Customers
One of our favorite customers, Sally, presented us today with this extraordinary Teapot bag. Over the years, she has shown us her very talented handiwork – tea cozies, bags, recipes, baking and we love it all. But this took the cake! She knows we go to trade shows and she thought it would be a nifty item to exhibit. And so it will be. Thanks, Sally. We will treasure it! Related posts: Chocolates Our friends and customers… Update on our Teapot Cake
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World Tea News To Charge Subscription
This a comment that I wrote following Heidi Kaiser wrote on the blog T Ching announcing that the World Tea News will have it’s own URL and charge a subscription. The is a photo of the Wall Street Journal on a driveway, as if there is somehow a parallel between the two. The tea industry has very little in the way of good tea publication, though there are some emerging on-line, but I have not been very happy to see the World Tea News becoming the default periodical about tea given their association with the World Tea Expo.
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Bigelow Tea Blazes Trails Online
Bigelow Tea Blazes Trails Online (from a press release) As a family-owned company, Bigelow Tea® understands the value of personal connections, and has built its company on those values for 65 years. While traditional advertising has been instrumental in establishing Bigelow Tea’s brand, the company understands that a new generation of Internet users expects more from their favorite companies: namely, the ability to have a two-way conversation.
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Darjeeling news
This week, the central government of India stated that a separate state would be carved out in the southern part of the country called Telengana. The best known city in this region would be Hyderabad. This has given new impetus to the on-and-off Gorkhaland movement in Darjeeling. Ethnic Nepalese have been clamoring for a separate state comprising Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong and surrounding regions, for years. A hunger strike has been called for the next 5 days and droves of tourists are making their way down the hills to escape the ‘bandh’ or stoppage. My sister has sped to Siliguri to get supplies to cover the next several days. Life in Darjeeling can be hard at the best of times but with open roads and markets and access to nearby towns, everything moves. For the next few days, all will be at a standstill – no shops, no businesses, no cars, trucks or tourists and no work at the tea plantations. For everyone’s sake, I hope this matter sees some resolution soon.
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Hot Cocoa at Silver Tips
For years we’ve stayed away from Hot Chocolate despite the numerous requests for them each winter. We never found one that was distinctive. Not any more. This season we have four Hot Cocoa mixes – White Chocolate, Peppermint Truffle, Caramel Praline and Orange-Pecan. Each pack is 1.25 oz. and completely true to its catch phrase, “Savor the Flavor of Old World Style Chocolate”. Because that’s exactly what it is
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Hot Cocoa at Silver Tips
Tea Tasting Saturday #53 – Milima Kenyan Tea
After doing multiple tea reviews a few times lately, I’m relieved the Kenyan tea category includes just one tea. And I can hardly believe there are only two more Saturdays left in the year! Category: Kenyan Black Tea Purveyor: Harney and Sons Dry leaf appearance : Black tea leaves with a few brown leaf bits throughout. Wet leaf appearance : The steeped tea leaves had a very reddish, henna-like appearance and reminded me, alas, of a few unfortunate home hair coloring experiences
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Tea Tasting Saturday #53 – Milima Kenyan Tea
Rare Taiwanese Tribute Tea Released in US
SAN FRANCISCO: Red Circle Tea announces the exclusive release of one of the rarest teas in the world, Tribute Red Jade #18. This tea was hand picked and completely hand-processed in a Taiwanese monastery and took over 100 man hours to make. The monastery farms organically, and tea plants are fertilized using only soybeans and honey
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Tea Spoon Collecting
By Kathy McCarthy While you do not give much thought to an ordinary spoon as you stir your warm cup of tea on a blustery winter’s eve, teaspoons can tell the story of the ages. Many collectors use spoons in their collections as an historic reference hearkening back to significant changes, either political, social or technological. Many tea spoons have political motifs, and their styles change to reflect the times
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Tea Spoon Collecting
Green Tea Side Effects
While there is a lot of hype and fanfare about all of the amazing, healing properties of green tea, you do not hear much in the way of warnings about its side effects. If you think for a minute, it only makes sense that if green tea can fight cancer, stave off heart problems and cure acne, it must have some negative side effects. The other reason that some side effects of green tea may manifest themselves is that, in an attempt to be healthy, people go from drinking no tea at all to drinking too much tea too quickly.
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Top sellers of this season…so far
Here’s a quick list of our online top sellers this season: Organic Sampler (& other Samplers) Flowering Tea Sampler Set “Serendipitea”, the book Tea , of course Related posts: Our favorite Tea Book Today’s Specialty Food Consumer Lotus Candlestick Jasmine
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The Three T’s of Brewing a Perfect Cup
Since tea is 99% water, you would think that it would be virtually impossible to prepare it incorrectly, however, that tiny one percent is the single component that makes or breaks a great tasting cup of tea. There is a proper way to prepare tea, and in many societies entire rituals are built around the act of preparing tea.
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Featured Assam Tea: Taylors of Harrogate
Assam teas are the favorite variety for many drinkers. If you drink Assam, you really need to try the variety produced by Taylors of Harrogate. Taylors variety is made from tea leaves grown in the rich and fertile plains of the Brahmaputra Valley in the Assam region of northeast India
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A wished-for ornament
Last summer, I had a giveaway for several pairs of some vintage gold teapot earrings I’d come across. One of the winners was Marilyn Miller of Delights of the Heart , a fellow tea blogger whom I’d come to know as a customer of her yummy Marmalady’s jams and jellies.
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A wished-for ornament