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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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Loose Tea Freedom with the Libre Tea Glass

July 25, 2009

Wendy Weir came by with her Libre Tea glass last month, and left two with me to try. One, all glass, and the other, a little lighter, with a polyproylene exterior and glass interior. I took the poly one and have been using it non-stop for three weeks now. It’s fantastic and I can’t imagine [...]

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Promoting Tea Culture

June 15, 2009

Last week we met to begin discussing our new tea group, founded to promote tea culture in Vancouver. Karen Duffield from Ooh Cha, Fionna Du from Aura Teas, and Liz Bandelin, from Tega Teas smiled quickly for my camera just as they were leaving. We had sat up on the roof, sipping honeybush/rooibos that Liz [...]

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Hospital Tea

May 10, 2009

In the hospital they offer tea or coffee with every meal. If the tea is anything like the coffee, it may barely resemble the beverage you thought it should be. It comes in a teabag, beside a cup of hot water which is rapidly becoming tepid. However, there is also an endless supply of teabags [...]

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Exquisite: the Naked Leaf

May 8, 2009

Walking on 10th street in Calgary the other day I was delighted to see the Naked Leaf Tea Shop. Jonathan Kane, the owner,  generously showed me around as I recorded this Flip video of the shop, something very special in Calgary’s Kensington area (on 10th St. NW). Naked Leaf also has a beautifully designed website [...]

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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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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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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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