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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February 8, 2009
A colleague and I went to Murchies’ for afternoon tea. Murchies’ is a Canadian institution, and like many Canadian institutions finds itself struggling to survive in the modern world. The store has an old-fashioned feel, from its vast selection of aesthetically neutral tea cozies to its displays of expensive tea pots over-decorated with the floral [...]
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