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Tea Diary

Great Tea Shop on Victoria Drive

October 15, 2010

This is the image on the bag from Fidelis Tea at 5881 Victoria Drive in Fraserview. Beautiful teas and many different tea pots, cups, and other teamaking supplies. The owner knows his teas, and the fine shop is a delight! I don’t know what the Chinese characters on the bag are advertising – can you [...]

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Moroccan Tea and Celebration

October 12, 2010

Celebrating the arrival of the book/CD project IN LOVE WITH THE MYSTERY, Peter Mortifee pours Moroccan tea for his wife, Nancy, his sister Ann Mortifee and guests James K-M and Carol Sill The tea glasses are on a fossil tray Then in a flip moment, Carol uses her flip to record Nancy using her flip [...]

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Shaktea in Vancouver

October 12, 2010

I’ve recently had two lovely and inspiring conversations over tea at Shaktea, one of Vancouver’s pleasant tea shops. Casual and welcoming, they sell a wide variety of loose tea, offer an extensive tea menu, as well as an afternoon tea – something I must try someday. I’m a big fan of their French Earl Grey [...]

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The Exquisite Tea Culture

October 11, 2010

There is something about tea culture that promotes beauty and the love of delicacy and refinement, but not in a way that excludes power, strength and all those other ineffable qualities we also love to engage in. Tea culture is centuries in the making and intercultural in its sweep through times, nations, kingdoms and kitchens. [...]

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Taking time for tea

May 16, 2010

I’ve been taking time for tea the last month or so, ending with a wonderful extravaganza Mothers Day Tea that my daughter and I whipped up frenziedly and enthusiastically. Normally we go out for a high tea and let it all be served to us. This year we shared tea with others, and invited mothers [...]

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Tea Tasting in Cuba

January 20, 2010

I really enjoyed sharing the teas I brought with me with Cuban friends, who mostly liked to drink it with lots of honey. By the way, the best honey I have ever tasted was in Cuba. Sometimes they would use sugar, in great amounts by North American standards. On a rainy November afternoon in Camaguey [...]

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Tea in Cuba

January 20, 2010

Yes there is tea in Cuba. They have available both black tea and green tea, loose, in packaging. Only one brand, bought with convertible pesos. Restaurants also serve a strong mint tea, blended, it seems, with a black tea. It must be the Russian influence that makes tea such a known quantity in the land [...]

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High Tea at Fleuri

October 6, 2009

When we arrived at 3 as the first reserved guests for Saturday afternoon tea we found the Fleuri Restaurant empty, and there was even someone vacuuming in the area in front of us. I paused, wondering if this was going to be one of those weird hotel restaurant experiences – empty and isolating. But once [...]

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Inner Alchemy: Bespoke Tea Services

September 28, 2009

Artisanal Teas I came across Dawna Ehman’s beautiful display of artisanal tea blends at the Gastown Farmer’s Market recently. There is a beauty and rooted understanding of the refinement that is tea culture in her work. Her exquisite teas are all hand-blended with verve and panache – she takes the risk of blending high-end teas [...]

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Grannie’s Silver Tea Serves Again!

September 28, 2009

Hi Ho, Silver! This family silver tea service was a staple at the teas my grannie held with the Canmore women of the St. Michael’s Anglican church group. It had been a 25th wedding anniversary gift from my grandfather, back in the 1920s or 30s. When my mum passed away, I was given the family [...]

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