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From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Visit with the Good People from Aura Teas

April 28, 2009

Carol, Allan, Fionna, James We had a great afternoon with Fionna and Allan, the good people behind Aura Teas. It was good to meet Fionna in person after so much email and tea correspondence. On a side note, it seems tea and networked life go well together. I really like the Aura Teas site – [...]

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Tea Club for Men

April 28, 2009

Move over tea-grannies, here’s the Tea Club for Men – a damn good blog with great functionality and targeted, Yes, for men! Here we see guys in action, navigating the world of tea. Connected to the movement so aptly described in the Wired article “Digg this URL Grey: Tea is the New Coffee” – featuring [...]

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My Tea Basket

April 22, 2009

There is a small box within my tea basket, there I keep smaller bags of tea. Join me as I go through this box, finding bits of delicious teas that I’ve yet to blog about. Confession: I’ve just been enjoying myself with teas and haven’t been documenting the experience much. Here are some of the [...]

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High Tea Tweetup at the Secret Garden

April 22, 2009

It was a lovely Easter Sunday afternoon high tea in Vancouver: an event beautifully tweeted-up by Karen from Tiny Bites. Here’s some very casual video of the occasion, our party of 8 (with only one man.) NEWS FLASH: Here’s the FULL Report with lots of pix and desc. at Tiny Bites.

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Make Tea the George Orwell Way

April 12, 2009

1984 ways to serve tea? Not really! but in 1946, Orwell wrote this classic article for the Evening Standard -  “A Nice Cup of Tea”, excerpt below: When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than 11 outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would [...]

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Matcha at Ooh Cha Teahouse

April 10, 2009

A couple of weekends ago, I went with a local meetup group to taste tea at Ooh Cha Teahouse on Kingsway, here in Vancouver. We settled in as proprietor Karen Duffield took us on a beautiful and informative tour of teas. Karen is an independent owner and tea lover who spent many years in Japan, [...]

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Connoisseur James Norwood Pratt

April 6, 2009

This is a fantastic video interview (from Chow) with connoisseur James Norwood Pratt, author of  New Tea Lover’s Treasury. And as he says, “No luxury is cheaper than tea.”

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