From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Ode to Tea

February 28, 2009

by isabella mori after four hours of sleep and 16 hours of work here comes pouring into the poet a cup of tea. tea!  tea!  tea! drug that whitewaterrafts into forgotten veins and drags with it, drawing deep from the bottomless swirls leftover bits and pieces of energy, scraping fragments of strength off the walls [...]

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Tea at the Blogger Meetup

February 28, 2009

While almost everyone else had a beer, I just automatically ordered my restaurant staple, Earl Grey tea. Imagine my pleasant surprise when my tea, from a teabag and unknown source, was so sharply flavourful! This wasn’t any tired old Earl Grey – it had zing and scent and flavour. Mmmm. Perfect on a rain-sleety evening [...]

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17 Women Answer One Question

February 26, 2009

What is your Favorite Tea? At a recent Circle of Women event in Roberts Creek, we casually passed the flip video camera around and each woman answered this simple question. The range of responses were as varied as the personalities. Tea with love, tea for conversation, herbal, black and rooibos, from loose tea to tea [...]

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Cafe Hafa in Tangiers

February 26, 2009

Here’s video of a tea place that has fascinated travellers, artists and intelligensia since 1921: Cafe Hafa in Morocco. Stupendous view, incredible location, ubiquitous mint tea.

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Lapsang Souchong: Campfire in a Cup!

February 23, 2009

The well documented smoky flavour of Lapsang Souchong makes this tea a rare acquired taste, one I am beginning to pick up. This afternoon, I needed a break after working on the computer all day. What better way to completely leave the digital life behind than to go into the realm of the senses offered [...]

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Afternoon Tea in Calgary

February 23, 2009

Gracious living and women’s conversation, tea and sympathy. Fran’s beautiful blue and white pottery served a selection of three teas on Saturday afternoon in Calgary. Three! How delightful! I started with the refreshing Jasmine Green tea, just for the taste, and then couldn’t resist going directly to the Irish tea with milk. Surprisingly smooth, I [...]

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Tea Tea Tea – always a surprise!

February 18, 2009

I’ve been tasting some amazing teas lately, thanks to the Co-op Tea Swap. Every couple of weeks, new loose tea arrives at my mail box. Mango Rooibos from Adagio Tea – sweet and uplifting. Darjeeling Goomtee 2nd Flush from TeaLogic – deliciously refined, perfect with milk and sugar. And when it steeped too long, I [...]

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4 lbs. of Tea for One Week

February 16, 2009

A friend read recently that Freya Stark, as she set out into the Hadhramaut in whatever year- 1935?- was provisioned by a local patriarch with 4 lbs. of tea for one week. 4 live fowls too, among other things. This strikes me as an awful lot of tea to take along. It cannot only have [...]

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Rooibos – Good for You, Good for Africa

February 15, 2009

Liz Bandelin, President of Nu-Tea, stopped by on her way to this weekend’s  The Victoria Tea Festival where she’s speaking on Rooibos – Good for You, Good for Africa. She’s a fountain of amazing information on all things Rooibos, and all the good things that this tea can do for our health. We had a [...]

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Tea for Two (Cha Cha Cha)

February 14, 2009

Here’s a summer rendition of the classic Tea for Two with a cha cha beat.

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