An idea that seems to be catching on with some loose leaf tea vendors is that of custom tea blending. You tell them what kind of leaf, flavor, intensity etc. you want, and they blend a tea for you to hit all of your favorite, right notes. The first time I saw this at an... Continue Reading →
It wasn't until I went home recently to visit my siblings, and I saw their reaction when I pulled out my Teavana travel tea kit, that I realized that just maybe not everyone travels with their own tea?! I mean, that's crazy talk, right? Who doesn't want to have their own favorite tea with them,... Continue Reading →
This is going to be a shorter post to share a tip/trick I employ to make my spiced tea last longer. I just wrote about what a pleasure it is to drink spiced tea during the holidays - and if there's one thing I like to be able to do is to keep drinking that... Continue Reading →
I recently received from Umi Tea Sets a lovely china tea cup and a sample of their Litchi Chinensis Black Tea, or lychee black tea. So I took sat down on a leisurely Saturday morning to brew the tea and enjoy it as it was meant to be drunk, in a charming china tea cup... Continue Reading →
A friend of mine went to China several years ago and told me about a tea she bought where the tea was packed into the rind of an orange and you brewed it whole in the orange. A pretty exotic-sounding tea to this American, but intriguing - and something I've wanted to try ever since.... Continue Reading →
I've always been interested in all the paraphernalia that accompanies the Western tea ceremony, though my knowledge of what constituted a tea caddy for years was limited to the wooden chest that well-to-do hostesses in days gone by would bring out to serve tea at the table. Only recently did I become aware of how... Continue Reading →
My second London tea shop crawl targeted the Mayfair/Picadilly area. When you're only in London for about a week, and you're working during the days, you have to be strategic and take advantage of any extra time you can find to fit in tea! Like I could take advantage of Thursday being a late night... Continue Reading →
So you're hankering for a good cuppa, but you don't want just any tea out of a tea bag (so many of them made of "tea dust" as a friend of mine once called it). You want a really good flavored tea - you just want a cup instead of a pot. Which means facing... Continue Reading →
Very Nearly Teatime 