Where Life Relaxes with a Cup of Tea
This is not a piece of porcelain; instead it is a famous and well established restaurant in New York City. If you’re a tea lover, you can’t visit New York without stopping in for tea at Alice’s Tea Cup. Well…if you just can’t get to Manhattan, Alice’s Tea Cup has prepared almost 100 of their [...]
The Ginger People make a very tasty and sweetly spiced syrup of 100% natural ginger, cane sugar and water. This delightful ginger syrup is a favorite of mine for sweetening a plain cup of tea.
Recently I caught a cold from my two-year old granddaughter who sneezed my way a couple of times and added a cough or two for good measure. I immediately grabbed the lemon juice for Vitamin C, but it didn’t help much. [...]
I love new tea discoveries and just the other day I was told of a new gourmet fruit that’s great with tea. This fruit is actually a lemon…well, not quite…it’s a cross between an ordinary lemon and a mandarin orange. It’s called a Meyer Lemon [...]
Writing about tea is always rewarding and peaceful for me–especially on rainy days. Today started out like most of my rainy tea writing days. As the deluge poured outside the office window, I made a pot of Earl Grey Crème tea (a definite favorite), and then settled in front of the computer to write a post or two [...]
It’s amazing how one enterprising person can build a famous business and bequeath a legacy for generations to come. This was the case with William Fortnum, a lowly footman in Queen Anne’s Palace. He persuaded Hugh Mason to go into business with him and the Fortnum & Mason tea emporium was created [...]
Gourmet tea has been used in making all kinds of products, so why not tea jelly? Surprisingly, you can use these delicious dessert toppings on scones, tea cakes, bagels, croissants, crackers and muffins [...]
