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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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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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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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World Tea Party at Centre A

February 13, 2010

After watching the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Opening Ceremonies on telly at home, James and I stepped out to see what was going on in the neighbourhood. We saw the large projections on the Centre A windows right away: tea pots,  an Asian woman having tea, other tea images. Yes, it was the opening night for [...]

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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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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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Paul Muldoon and Stephen Colbert read TEA

June 19, 2009

Poet Paul Muldoon and Stephen Colbert read his poem “Tea” on the Colbert Report last night, making it the number one poem in America. In Canada you can see it here. In US it is here.

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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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