Tea and Herb Pairings!
Maria Uspenski from T Ching posted this great article on pairing teas with herbs: http://www.tching.com/index.php/2009/07/30/savoring-tea-herb-pairings-made-in-heaven/ She runs through some simple...
View ArticleTea 101: Water for tea (via: The Examiner)
Lainie Petersen wrote a great article on the water used for tea – which is very important as brewed tea is 98% water. If you have been using city tap water for tea, then reading this article is a must....
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Bamboo Charcoal – Part One
I recently received a package from “Bamboo Charcoal” [http://twitter.com/BambooCharcoal] of bamboo charcoal. Lets open it up and see what I got! Now its time to see if this stuff really works....
View ArticleSlowing things down a bit.
Have you heard of the Slow Food Movement? In contrast to the fast food movement, the Slow Food Movement is a “nod to the contrast with fast food values, Slow Food is a reference to living an unhurried...
View ArticleBamboo Charcoal – How to use it, how to make it, how to love it.
Update: Bamboo Charcoal is now available here. Bamboo charcoal, you’ve heard of it, you’ve heard of the great things it can do. But really, does it work? I think so. I’m not 100% sure, but I allowed...
View ArticleHaving People Over for Tea Tasting
I had a few friends over recently. They had never “experienced” tea. So I decided to give them a bit of a tasting, but I also wanted to have several courses of food to pair with the tea. After much...
View ArticleTea and Work, and How You Should Be Mixing the Two
You may find it hard to mix tea and work. The hustle and bustle, lack of hot water, inability to bring in high-quality tea-ware all scream: TEA-BAG! But that doesn’t have to be the case, new...
View ArticleThree Tea Recipes [via The National Post]
The National Post has a great article called: “Get that tea out of its bag and into this meal” featuring three recipes that sound quite amazing: Tea Smoked Chicken Green Tea Shortbread Hot Tea Toddy...
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Make Yourself Some Moroccan Mint … drink
I began watching “The Meaning of Tea” tonight. There was a lot of footage from Morocco, and the sweet mint tisane they refer to as “tea” there. I’ve had Mint Tea before, and it was always just “okay”...
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BP Tea – or Why is There an Oil Slick in my Tea?
Sometimes when steeping a tea – you may notice a small oil slick floating on the surface of the tea liquor. This is likely to occur when steeping teas that have been pan-fired. The oil comes from the...
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Why tea-bags and tea-infusers are bad
Tea bags are a product of convenience; they are easy, cheap, and clean. But if you’ve only ever drank tea that was a product of a tea-bag, you are missing out. Tea-bags used to only be filled with dust...
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Easy Steeping for Busy Folks
Let’s examine the steeping of tea in its simplest form for a moment: when we steep tea, we are making a drink from the leaves of a plant. We take into account the type of tea leaves we are using and...
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5 Ways to Destroy Your Tea
How many of you have a kitchen cabinet dedicated to tea? How many of our cabinets are complete unorganized messes — tea in zip-lock bags, old tupperware containers, paper bags from the tea shop? It is...
View ArticleOn Proper Storage of Pu-erh Tea
Pu-erh is one of the most interesting and sought after teas these days because of its medicinal properties as well as its general collectibility. With pu-erh cakes from decades past going for thousands...
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The Engineer’s Guide to Tea Preparation
The bulk of tea produced in the world is commodity tea, meaning that it is actively traded and it’s price is determined by the markets. Commodity tea is relatively cheap, with the worldwide average...
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The Definitive Guide to Tea Cocktails
The following is an interview I conducted with my good friend, Tyler Fry. Tyler is a bartender at Chicago’s famed “The Violet Hour.” The bar was the recipient of the James Beard Foundation’s 2015 award...
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