Posted on May 22, 2009
If you’ve read Part 1 of this post, you’ll have an idea of items you’ll need for brewing and serving the teas you plan to share. Now for some ideas about which teas:
Posted on May 6, 2009
As our bus climbed up a hill in AnXi county in Fujian, we enjoyed views of tea gardens on the slopes of the valley we left behind. The higher we went, the more expansive the vista of green terraces. Adding to our pleasure was the scent of gardenias wafting in through the windows. The narrow [...]
Posted on April 28, 2009
I usually don’t pay retail for teas. An employee discount plan saw me through most teas I liked. For specific brands I liked, especially for making milk tea, I certainly didn’t mind paying retail for those convenient blends. Occasionally, there were teas our customers carried but which were not supplied by my company, and I would [...]
Posted on April 28, 2009
While waiting at a doctor’s office this week, I picked up the February 2009 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal and as luck would have it, the nutrition feature was about tea, “The Healing Power of Tea.” For once I didn’t mind the wait.
Areas for which tea holds potential benefits were listed: heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, [...]
Posted on April 28, 2009
In a blog titled “Abstract City” (New York Times 12/2/08) the artist Christoph Nieman illustrates and recounts with admirable humor his ups and downs in his relationship with coffee. He writes that when he was seventeen, he “loved the concept of coffee, but resented the taste.”
As I wrote elsewhere, I have wondered if all those [...]