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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-56056901652044662582016-10-31T11:27:00.000-07:002016-10-31T11:27:32.278-07:00Halloween Ghoul in Your Tea?<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "calibri";">As it is Halloween, I couldn’t resist pulling out my </span><a href="http://www.fredandfriends.com/table/mr-tea/MRTEA.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "calibri";">Mr. Tea</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "calibri";">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #444444;"> My little guy is a tea strainer / infuser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought him because I was struck by his expression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leaning on the rim of a cup, with his legs filled with tea leaves, Mr. Tea infuses my tea while seeming to relax and enjoy the heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I imagine that he</span> is in a tea spa or hot tub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="color: #444444;">But does Halloween bring out a more ghoulish expression?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You decide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll be sipping on his tea this Halloween night when the kids come knocking on my door for candy ...and when witches, ghosts and ghouls come out to play.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-19721134826501813042016-05-08T09:55:00.001-07:002016-05-08T09:55:45.966-07:00Do You Drink the Leaf?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #444444;">While on vacation in the Allegheny mountains of Virginia enjoying nature and waterfall vistas, I had
my morning tea at the </span><a href="https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/homestead-virginia" target="_blank">Omni Homestead Resort</a><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span><span style="color: #444444;">Room service provided an exquisite tea bag designed to look like a plant. It looked like a leaf was growing from it!</span></div>
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green, black, oolong, and pu-reh) come from the same plant.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">The tea plant is an evergreen shrub known as
the Camellia sinensis.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">Its leaves and
buds are used to make tea.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">There are two varieties of the tea plant.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">Camellia sinensis variety sinensis is considered most likely native to western Yunnan in China. Camellia sinensis variety assamica is native to the
warmer parts of Assam (India), Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and
southern China. [1]</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I'm not sure which of the two varieties was in my morning black tea. But </span><a href="https://www.teaforte.com/" target="_blank">Tea Forte's</a> <span style="color: #444444;">exquisite tea bag design was a visual reminder that my choice of morning beverage was from the Camellia sinensis plant.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">[1]</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/plants-fungi/camellia-sinensis-tea">http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/plants-fungi/camellia-sinensis-tea</a></div>
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-55031624679646161282016-01-24T14:47:00.000-08:002016-01-24T14:47:30.880-08:00Is That a Goldfish in Your Tea?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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teacup is a small aquarium. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">These days
that wouldn’t be hard to do thanks to the help of Taiwanese company <a href="http://www.charmvilla.com/" target="_blank">Charm Villa</a>. They sell a tea bag that,
when in hot water, swells into a real looking goldfish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consisting of </span>Japanese
fabric and Taiwanese tea leaves<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the</span> goldfish tea bags</span> take 16 steps to produce. It
took a group of 28 students from St. John's University in Taipei to come up with the design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
award winning tea bag won the international Red Dot Communication Design Award
in 2014 [1] and the 2015 iF Product Design Award for Discipline Packaging. [2]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Pretty popular in Taiwan, maybe because it’s not only
adorable but because for many people in Asia the goldfish symbolizes prosperity and good fortune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Charm Villa's novelty goldfish tea bags only recently became available in
the Western world, too. The joy of seeing a gold fish
splashing about your tea cup will cost you. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I purchased a single tea bag of <a href="http://www.charmvilla.com/" target="_blank">Charm Villa's</a> Oolong on Amazon.com for $20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My kids thought the tea bag was cute when it was dry and also
when it was wet and steeping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found that hot water made it look
eerily a bit too real.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">[1] http://red-dot.de/cd/en/online-http://red-dot.de/cd/en/online-exhibition/work/?code=04-01688&y=2014 </span></span></div>
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-23659720622774865102015-12-31T15:54:00.000-08:002016-01-02T11:10:42.540-08:00Head and Shoulders, Teas and Toes<br />
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</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the <a href="http://www.houseofsteep.com/" target="_blank">House of Steep</a> in the Cherrydale neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, we sipped our teas as we blissfully soaked our feet in hot water mixed with essential oils, botanicals and salt. We were sitting on a couch next to an indoor waterfall. There was soft lighting and soothing music. I had the herbal foot soak called “serenity” a blend of chamomile, lavender and oatmeal. My sister had the “purity” soak with juniper and eucalyptus. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ladies on the couch next to us shared a pot of tea while having their feet massaged by a massage therapist.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Tea, Feet, Relaxation” is the motto of the <a href="http://www.houseofsteep.com/" target="_blank">House of Steep</a> which is a Tea House and Foot Sanctuary. It combines influences from the East and West and describes itself as a modern oasis. Inside we stepped away from the hustle and bustle of a weekday to steep our toes for 20 minutes. I started to get my “Zen on” by working on a miniature rock garden before having my feet pampered in an herbal foot bath while drinking delicious tea.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ordered a pot of Ilam, a tea from Nepal. Ilam is grown in a high altitude. Its taste is similar to that of a Darjeeling tea, which is grown in the foothills of the Himalayas. My Ilam came with a timer to let me know when it was fully and perfectly steeped.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The loose leaf tea collection at the <a href="http://www.houseofsteep.com/" target="_blank">House of Steep</a> was extensive, including black, oolong, pu’erh, green and white teas
along with herbal tisanes. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Separate from the foot spa quarters, customers can have salads, sandwiches,
quiche, rice bowls and baked treats. Just as for its massages, the <a href="http://www.houseofsteep.com/" target="_blank">House of Steep</a> offers special afternoon tea service
by appointment only.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had never heard of a tea house combining its expertise in
teas with an expertise in therapeutic foot spa service. I hope this ingenious combination spreads.</span></div>
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<b></b>Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-36004017980686098482015-11-15T15:45:00.000-08:002015-11-15T15:47:27.819-08:00What! Coffee in a Tea Bag?<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Don't be surprised on your next flight if your coffee comes in a tea bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W</span>hen I was flying Southwest the
other day, I decided to forego my <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">usual</span> tea and have coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
came in a tea bag!</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span id="goog_1883208841"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Looks like some coffee
companies want to get in on the tea bag business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not know much about coffee, but I
know a little about tea bags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, tea
bags are so common that it is hard to find loose leaf tea in the average U.S.
supermarket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But j</span>ust over 100 years
ago, that was not the case.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's because of the New York City tea merchant,
Thomas Sullivan.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story goes that in 1908 Sullivan
designed a silk tea bag as a cost cutting method of
providing samples of his teas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
confused customers mistakenly used the bags to brew their tea and then
became enamored with this new convenient style of tea making. <a href="http://www.tea.co.uk/the-history-of-the-tea-bag" target="_blank">[1]</a>.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While Sullivan may have
popularized the tea bag, he in fact was not the first inventor of the tea bag. A few years earlier in 1903, Robert C. Lawson and
Mary McLaren of Milwaukee, Wisconsin received a U.S. patent for their tea bag design. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US723287" target="_blank">[2]</a>. </span>They were issued <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US723287" target="_blank">U.S. patent 723287</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> for a “novel tea-holding pocket constructed of open-mesh woven fabric,
inexpensively made of cotton thread.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US723287" target="_blank">[2]</a> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Given the popularity of the tea bag, the question is, why hasn’t the
coffee business been in on the act? I asked a coffee barista at </span><a href="https://www.staufs.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sauf’s Coffee</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> at North Market </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">in
Columbus Ohio </span></span></span> about coffee in tea bags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had never even heard of coffee in a tea bag and her company
doesn’t sell it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">She may be hearing of it soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Large coffee companies such as Folgers and Maxwell House</span> now sell coffee in tea
bags at grocery stores in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
Maxwell House's </span>bags are called “coffee singles.” If Maxwell House can do for coffee what Thomas Sullivan did for tea - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> don't be surprised to see coffee in tea bags everywhere.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-6415931278289573522015-10-14T23:09:00.000-07:002015-10-15T12:45:19.588-07:00Tea in Paris - An Elegant Affair at Mariage Frères<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The Parisian
taste for fine foods applies to teas as well -- during my 2 week visit to Paris, I was in tea heaven.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Tea is available everywhere. While even the smallest bars and bistros display signage declaring themselves
"Salon de Th<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">é,</span>" I mostly checked out the specialty shops. My favorite is </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.mariagefreres.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Mariage Frères</span></a><span style="color: #444444;">, a sophisticated tea company with an unparalleled history in the French world of tea.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1)</span> <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Cosmopolis,“Mariage
Fr<span style="font-size: small;">è</span>res:The French Tea Company in Paris";</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Way past her bed time, she stumbles into the kitchen and requests her sleep time tea. Sitting at the kitchen counter in her footy pajamas with
the cheetah pattern, my daughter stalls for more awake time rather than going
to bed. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Soothing
herbal blends are popular in my house just before bed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Herbal teas are technically tisanes and are
not strictly speaking teas – which are brews from the tea plant a/k/a/ Camellia
senensis plant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This night, I choose
Nighty Night tea by <a href="http://www.traditionalmedicinals.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Medicinals</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The largest ingredient in Nighty Night tea is passionflower.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1569,
Spanish explorers discovered passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) in Peru. [</span><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/871.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Native people of America used this plant for
rest and relaxation. [</span><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/871.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
Passionflower was formerly approved as an over-the-counter sedative and sleep
aid in the U.S., few scientific studies have tested passionflower for these
purposes and it was taken off the over the counter market in 1978 because its
safety and effectiveness had not been proven. [</span><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/871.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, according to the University of
Maryland Medical Center, scientists believe passionflower works by increasing
levels of a chemical called gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain. GABA
lowers the activity of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some brain cells, making you feel more relaxed. [<a href="http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/passionflower" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">]</span></span></span></span></div>
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States Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health, U.S. National
Library of Medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> "Passionflower."
</span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/871.html" target="_blank">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/871.html</a> </span>Last reviewed - 02/16/2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Medical Reference Guide, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Guide. "Herb,
Passionflower." <a href="http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/passionflower">http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/passionflower</a> Last
updated:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May 7, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span>Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-1305913277227572192015-05-27T11:55:00.004-07:002015-05-27T11:56:26.621-07:00Tea - Organic, Fair<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We admire
those supporting traditional tea farmers by selling organic and fair trade product. Find affiliate
friends we admire at our new page <a href="http://www.teadreams.net/p/tea-organic-fair.html">Tea - Organic, Fair</a></span></span>Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-74311205103518056122015-05-08T22:21:00.001-07:002015-05-14T00:53:58.094-07:00Fresh Ideas at the 2015 World Tea Expo<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">It's the week of the 2015 World Tea Expo.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> Me and thousands of other tea
enthusiasts from all over the world have flocked to the annual World Tea Expo,
held this year in Long Beach, CA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've
had a great time perusing the tea product displayed by the tea vendors. It
can be challenging for a tea company to come up with new ideas for this
centuries old beverage. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>It
was nice to see, nestled amongst the traditional standards, some unique and interesting
ideas exhibited. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Here are a
few I noticed.</span></span><br />
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brewed and bottled in their factory in Vermont.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just add the right liquor, as suggested in their recipes, and voila! you
have a tastey cocktail.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Another was <a href="http://summusweb.com/nr/abouten.html" target="_blank">Summus Tea</a>, with a new product designed for slow brewed
ice tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The loose oolong tea leaves are
sold in individually vacuum sealed capsules inside a lovely re-useable glass
bottle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Empty one capsule into the
bottle, fill it with water, and let sit for 24 hours to get the perfect brew.
Serve chilled on ice.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Then there’s <a href="http://bkonbrew.com/craft-brewer/" target="_blank">bkon</a> (they don’t capitalize their name). This company
champions the cause of serving perfectly brewed tea with no messy strainers or
tea bags. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their product is an automated
brewing machine with programmable menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
input water and tea leaves and press the button for the recipe that matches the
tea type.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bkon brewer brews it up at
the proper temperature, extracts flavors using patented reverse atmospheric technology,
and gives you the final product perfectly brewed to the exact specifications
each time.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-69600533980186897142015-01-12T00:27:00.001-08:002015-01-16T18:17:26.093-08:00Green in the Land of the Rising Sun<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is it about
Japanese tea that gives it such a special place in my heart?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most other tea producing regions of the
world, tea came to Japan by way of China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As early as the 8<sup>th</sup> century, Buddhist monks returning to
Japan from studying in China are known to have brought tea back with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t until the 12<sup>th</sup> century,
however, that Japan began cultivating its own tea and tea culture thanks to the
Buddhist monk known as Eisai who first established tea farming in Japan when he
brought back tea plant seeds from China.(1)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan is known for
green tea, in fact, most of the tea produced and consumed in Japan is green
tea. It differs from Chinese green tea because of different processing techniques.
One especially unique Japanese technique is the steaming of harvested leaves to
halt the oxidation.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rona Tison, green tea
expert and Vice President of <a href="http://www.itoen.com/about-us" target="_blank">Ito En</a> tea company, discussed the five main Japanese teas to an
audience of tea lovers at the San Francisco International Tea Festival
2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s what I learned about them
at her presentation:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Matcha is a powdered green
tea used for the Cha-no-yu, which is the traditional Japanese tea
ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is prepared for drinking
by adding hot water and using a fine toothed bamboo whisk to whip the tea
liquor into a froth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This style of tea
was first created in China during the Song period (960-1279 AD)</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">, but lost
popularity in China in subsequent years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nowadays, it is considered quintessentially Japanese.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sencha is green tea brewed
from whole leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The leaves are
carefully chosen from tea plants fully exposed to the sun as they grow, not
shaded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 80% of the tea produced in
Japan is Sencha.(2)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hojicha</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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made by roasting bancha tea at a high heat instead of steaming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bancha
are leaves and stems harvested in the later part of the year.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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sencha with roasted rice kernels mixed in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During roasting some of the kernels pop open like popcorn.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Considered the caviar of teas, Gyokuro is the highest grade of Japanese tea. The leaves for this tea are harvested once a year during the late spring. About two weeks before harvest, the entire tea plant is covered to shade it from sunlight until picking time. This treatment is believed to bring out exceptionally rich flavors in the leaves.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, what is it about
Japanese teas that I like?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the
flavor of the steamed leaves, or the thick liquor of a whipped brew of powdered
matcha, or the savory notes when roasted rice is mixed in, or perhaps just the
beautifully refined cha-no-yu culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
me it’s all good.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s a link to a video where Christine
Savage, tea expert at the Samovar Tea Lounge, introduces several types of
Japanese green teas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gives a great overview
on how the teas are processed and what their particular characteristics are.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="color: black;">Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties</span></em></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">, by The Camelia Sinensis Tea House (Kevin
Gascoyne, Francois Marchand, Jasmin Desharnais, Hugo Americi. Firefly Books
Ltd, 2014, p.90</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="color: black;">Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties</span></em></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">, by The Camelia Sinensis Tea House (Kevin
Gascoyne, Francois Marchand, Jasmin Desharnais, Hugo Americi. Firefly Books
Ltd, 2014, p.116</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-48359679330729186942014-11-18T00:54:00.000-08:002014-11-18T11:37:36.097-08:003rd Annual San Francisco International Tea Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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annual SF International Tea Festival was held this past Sunday in the iconic Ferry
Building of San Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
quite an enthusiastic showing of vendors. Some came from afar, but most were small,
California based, specialty tea companies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Ghograjan
Tea Estate, Assam, India<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">The
Imperial Tea Court, San Francisco, CA</span></span></span></div>
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Tea Room, Los Angeles and Pasadena, CA</span></span></div>
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Tea Room (tea infused chocolate!), San Leandro, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Circle Tea, San Francisco, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-14146317276947391562014-10-18T19:34:00.000-07:002015-05-14T23:22:11.265-07:00Eat your tea!...Laphet Thoke<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">At the Rangoon Ruby
restaurant in Palo Alto, I had the best tea and didn’t even drink it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t actually drink it because it was a
salad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While eating tea leaves is not
common in most parts of the world, it is a popular tradition in Myanmar
(formerly Burma) in the form of tea leaf salad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, tea leaf salad, Laphet Thoke, is a
typical part of family meals.[1]</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">“Laphet” in Burmese
means pickled tea and “Thoke” means mixture or salad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laphet is made by fermenting fresh tea leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Newly picked tea leaves get steamed for about
an hour, then spread on mats and hand pressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The leaves are then packed tightly into a container (traditionally a
bamboo lined pit) and covered with stones or another weight to compress the
leaves and squeeze out air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
then left that way to ferment for several months to as long as a year.[2]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laphet as a delicacy was originally created
and produced by the Palaung people in<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> the Shan region of
northern </span>Myanmar.[3]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sixty
percent of the tea produced in Myanmar still comes from this region.[4]</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">The salad I ate was brought
to the table in the traditional way, which is on a single plate with separate
piles of additional ingredients - nuts, seeds, lettuce…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was then tossed together and served.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flavors were layered and complex with a
sweet and sour tang and a little bit of a spicy after taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved the jumble of textures - soft,
crunchy and crisp elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
wonderful.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">Laphet Thoke can come
in many variations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s one recipe
you might like:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="value"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1/</span></span><span class="name"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">3 cup fermented green
tea leaves<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="name"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">4 cloves </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name">of garlic (chopped) <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span class="name"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">1/4
cup peanut oil <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="name"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2
tablespoons peanuts </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name">(coarsely chopped) <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span class="name"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">2
tablespoons cooked lentils<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="name"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1
tablespoon sesame seeds </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name">(toasted) </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="value"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2
</span></span><span class="type"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">tablespoons</span></span><span class="ingredient"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span class="name"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">dried shrimp </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="value"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1/2 lime </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="type">(sliced</span><span class="name"> or juiced)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name">1/3 cup shredded cabbage or lettuce</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name"><span class="instructions"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sauté the garlic in 2 teaspoons of the oil until it starts to turn
brown. Remove from heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Combine with the tea
leaves and the remaining oil in a bowl and knead. Let the mixture sit at least
one hour or until leaves soften.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Serve
with the other ingredients.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name"><span class="instructions"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">____________________________________________</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name"><span class="instructions"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">[1] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar-culture/myanmar-laphet.htm">http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar-culture/myanmar-laphet.htm</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name"><span class="instructions"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">[2] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The Art of
Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from
around the World,” by Sandor Ellix Katz, 2012</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name"><span class="instructions"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">[3] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.myanmarburma.com/attraction/549/the-palaung">http://www.myanmarburma.com/attraction/549/the-Palaung</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="name"><span class="instructions"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">[4] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.dvb.no/news/tea-industry-in-steep-decline-burma-myanmar/40652">https://www.dvb.no/news/tea-industry-in-steep-decline-burma-myanmar/40652</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<br />Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-89865554359051729012014-09-07T12:16:00.000-07:002015-05-13T23:25:05.248-07:00Science Fiction Novel about a Tea Master<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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runs out of water, make my last cup into tea please.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11.5pt;">It’s not every day that I come across a book that blends my love
of tea with my love of science fiction. With beautiful prose,
Finnish author Emmi Itaranta tells a dark tale of a futuristic society
where water is scarce and expensive but the tradition of tea
survives. <strong>Memory of Water</strong> is a </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11.5pt;">dystopian novel about tea masters in a
post-apocalyptic future where the water is strictly rationed and the penalty
for violating the water quota can be execution. </span><span style="color: #444444;">
</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11.5pt;">The main
character is Noria, a seventeen year old born long after the “oil wars” and
after the earth’s climatic change that resulted in the loss of most of the
world’s drinking water. She lives in the former Scandinavia, which
has become a province controlled by a totalitarian military regime which seeks
to own and control all remaining potable potable water supplies. Noria
studies the fine art of the tea ceremony and is to inherit her father’s distinguished position
as the village tea master. Noria learns that Tea Masters have
secret knowledge of hidden water sources.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span><br />
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appreciate that author </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Itaranta</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> gave a good deal of detail on tea
preparation. For example, Noria heats water in a cauldron and watches
for the first 10 bubbles of the boiling water. In real life, the
Chinese have traditionally called this stage of boiling water “shrimp eyes.” Shrimp
eyes appear at a temperature of </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">155°-176°F,
which is ideal for delicate green tea. [<a href="http://www.teadreams.net/2013/08/some-like-it-hot.html" target="_blank">1</a>]</span></span><a href="http://www.teadreams.net/2013/08/some-like-it-hot.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">taranta</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">’s tea
ceremony has a strictly prescribed etiquette and philosophy and is modeled
after real life’s Japanese tea ceremony. In one scene, Noria
silently disapproves when certain guests discuss politics during the tea
ceremony. Similarly, in the Japanese tea ceremony, guests</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> are to refrain from talking about topics unrelated to the
tea ceremony. In another scene, Noria is chastised by a senior tea
master for opening a second window in the tea house where by rule<span style="background: black; mso-highlight: black;"></span> only one window is to be
left open. She is reminded that this rule is so that guests can
“take pleasure in the scent of the tea and the humidity of air created by the
water.” [2] Noria explains her choice
to open a second window was for the comfort of her guests and was in fact in
accordance with the philosophy of the tea ceremony, which is about “embracing
change and accepting the fleeting quality of the world around us.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11.5pt;">Will Noria embrace change or be bound by tradition of the
tea master in a world where the military’s designs on water are at odds with
survival for all? I enjoyed finding out and hope the author decides
to make a sequel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">[1] </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.teadreams.net/2013/08/some-like-it-hot.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.teadreams.net/2013/08/some-like-it-hot.html">http://www.teadreams.net/2013/08/some-like-it-hot.html</a></span><a href="http://www.teadreams.net/2013/08/some-like-it-hot.html"></a> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">[2] <u>Water of Memory</u>, Emmi Itaranta </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Chapter 8, page 98.</span></span>Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-54349397272695220572014-08-24T18:44:00.002-07:002014-08-25T23:51:14.440-07:00Afternoon Tea at The Golden Tea Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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oasis of beauty, I had a British style Afternoon Tea service with a
friend at the Golden Tea Garden in Hayward, CA. The owner Beneba Thomas has
spared no effort in bringing the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>tranquility
of a lovely private outdoor garden to her inside dining area. <span class="apple-converted-space"> There’s a </span>grand trickling water
fountain at the entry and live flowers everywhere along with rose petals (not
real ones!) strewn about the floor. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>A
garden mural covers an entire wall and the white garden furniture is a perfect
touch to make this inside area feel like a garden. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And like a real garden, the décor
changes in part with the seasons.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Tea was served in a beautiful variety of fine porcelain tea
cups, saucers, and pots with floral patterns. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Lavish displays of even more exquisite
teaware appeared on extra tables and garden benches. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Only some of the teaware was for sale,
some was part of the owner's private collection.</span><br />
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serving her guests when I visited. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Along with fine teaware, Beneba knows her teas! <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>There are nearly 200 options, the menu
serves as a basic guide, but Beneba has even more teas available upon
request. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I was pleasantly
surprised to find she had one of my favorites, a ginseng oolong which is not
very common in U.S. tea houses.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Golden Tea Garden also hosts events. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The day I went, I joined a class in
the etiquette of Afternoon Tea from the British tradition.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> I learned that there are two traditions
of tea service taken in the afternoons, one called “High Tea,” and the other
“Low Tea.” <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>High Tea
originated in Britain as a late day tea and meal break for the working class,
with the term “high” presumably because they had their tea break while sitting
at regular sized tables.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> This
would be as opposed to the “low” tables of Low Tea, which originated as casual
social meetings between friends of the upper class where the tea was served on
low drawing room tables. The term "Afternoon Tea" typically refers to Low Tea,
which nowadays is served on tables of any height.</span><br />
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I’ll be back either way for more tea at the Golden Tea Garden.</span></span> </span>Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-59182181706345319572014-08-09T15:35:00.000-07:002014-08-10T17:42:16.339-07:00ZenCha<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the window of </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://zen-cha.com/" target="_blank">ZenCha Tea Salon</a> there was a</span></span></span> sign that said "<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Wanted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Tea Ambassadors." If I
lived in Columbus Ohio, I’d consider applying. “Enthusiasm” in
learning about tea and in promoting tea and tea culture is what ZenCha seeks in
its tea ambassadors, a.k.a. tea support staff. That sounds like me! </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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tea is a common bond between ethnic and cultural diversity across the
globe. To further this common bond, ZenCha offers teas from all over
the world and also blends teas to capture the styles of the some of the major
tea regions. For its “Arabic series” of tea, ZenCha combines black
tea with spices and fruits found in Arabia. My favorite from this series
is Cardimon Ginger and I buy packets of it in loose leaf to bring home.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Recently at ZenCha, I
ordered a mango bubble tea made the old fashion way, as explained
by ZenCha owner Jean Wu. Bubble tea is sweet latte tea
with a number of tapioca “bubbles” or balls in it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bubble tea originated in Taiwan in the 1980s
and is extremely popular there today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zencha’s
bubble tea is still made from real brewed tea, real milk, and real natural
ingrediants, unlike some bubble tea sellers today, who now use food dye,
powdered tea and powdered milk.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With a tea philosophy based on the principles of “Harmony, Respect, Purity, and Tranquility,” ZenCha seeks to create environments where customers feel a sense of relaxation for a “Zen” tea experience. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found that the garden in the window of their High St. location and the art work and soothing colors at their Bexley location both lead me to Zen tea moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must be working for other customers too - judging by the way they linger</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The "Chigusa", Antique Tea Jar </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">How did this
modest jar get bestowed a name and why is it so famous that it has its own
exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.? Tea is the answer. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">On display at
the Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art, is a 700 year old tea jar named the
Chigusa. I went to its exhibit, the “Chigusa and the Art of Tea,” which
is showing in the Sackler Gallery of Art through July 2014. This big
brown ceramic jar (16.5 inches tall) with no extraordinary decorative design or
etchings was created in China as a mere storage jar during the Southern Song or
Yuan dynasty, 1260 -1368. [<a href="https://www.blogger.com/.http:/www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2014/02/20/chigusa-art-of-tea-sackler-gallery/">1</a>] </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The jar was
shipped to Japan where tea masters used it to hold loose leaf tea. In
Japan, the Chigusa held precious Tencha (sweet or new leaf tea) used for making
matcha during the Japanese Tea Ceremony. The tea ceremony in ancient times was
reserved for royalty, high Samurai, visiting dignitaries, and influential tea
merchants. [<a href="http://www.domatcha.com/news/northamerica/Smithsonian%20Press%20Release.pdf">2</a>] This humble tea jar rose to become
one of the most revered objects of Japan’s chanoyu (art of tea) culture. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">We know this
because not only did Japanese tea masters keep tea diaries detailing every
aspect of their tea ceremonies, including centerpieces, flooring and the jars
that held their tea, they named their tea pieces. The first record of the
Chigusa is in a 1586 diary. Since then, records show that the Chigusa’s
“surface has been admired and caressed by a who's who of Japan's cultural
giants<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>from the 16th century
forward,” said James Ulak, deputy director of the Freer and Arthur M. Sackler
galleries. [<a href="http://www.asia.si.edu/press/past/prTea">3</a>] </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">By virtue of
the tea fans who have used it, seen it and written about it over the centuries,
the Chigusa has become in essence a celebrity tea jar. If I name my own
personal tea box and blog about it, will my box be
as famous as the Chigusa in 700 years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s a photo
of it…its name is Joey.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">[1] .<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2014/02/20/chigusa-art-of-tea-sackler-gallery/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2014/02/20/chigusa-art-of-tea-sackler-gallery/</a></span></span></div>
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-66191898557596634352014-07-10T18:19:00.000-07:002014-07-16T23:36:16.742-07:00Green Tea Ice Cream ... Sam I Am<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Tea Ice Cream</td></tr>
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</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #444444;">It ain’t easy being green, if you’re ice cream in the U.S.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">In most American supermarkets, you’ll find that ice cream doesn’t tend to be green.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">I decided to do a little test – and ask a few Americans if they could name me just one green ice cream.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">Silence for a long time usually occurred and people thought long and hard.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">Then the only one they could name (if any at all) was chocolate chip mint ice cream.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">But even that isn't completely green – it’s green and brown.</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">(I bet some seniors may think of pistachio ice cream, my grandma liked that one.)</span><span style="color: #444444; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Posters in Scoop Shack. Edgartown, MA</td></tr>
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</span>Green tea ice cream is green in color and is made from matcha, the Japanese ceremonial </span></span></span>green tea powder. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
this flavor is extremely popular in Japan and other East Asian nations,
the color green in an ice cream, however, does not appeal to everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband, for example, when asked exclaimed “Yuck! That’s a crazy flavor.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But you’ve had green tea”, I replied, “and you liked it, why not green tea ice cream?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No way! I don’t like <u>green</u> ice cream, Sam I am.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite
the lesson to be learned from Dr. Zeus’s Green Eggs and Ham, I am
unable to get my husband to try green tea ice cream, neither here nor
there, not anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Despite the color, I’ve noticed two indicators that green
tea ice cream has made some head way in the U.S. market in recent years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one, as of 1996, one of the most popular
ice cream companies – Haagen-Dazs – started selling green tea ice cream in the
U.S..[1]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> None </span>of the other top U.S. ice cream sellers make
green tea ice cream.[2]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Secondly, I
recently found home-made green tea ice cream selling in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheScoopShack/info" target="_blank">Scoop Shack</a>, a Mom and Pop ice cream
shop in a small town in New England. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom
and Pop shops tend to sell only the most popular flavors.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I’ve visited plenty of U.S. ice
cream parlors, particularly in the summers, every year of my life and have
never seen green tea ice cream sold in them before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Edgartown, Massachusetts, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheScoopShack/info" target="_blank">Scoop Shack</a>
makes ice cream daily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They currently
make and sell green tea ice cream with mint and honey. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That sounded delicious to me and I bought a
scoop and loved it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband just
doesn’t know what he is missing!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span>Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-29761112209190726972014-07-04T21:43:00.000-07:002014-07-04T21:43:24.293-07:00The Passing of a Master Tea Blender<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyd6RTd3CJtGGEVMNByAMNgCjgudTQDAH2de-bk-iuZIYft-53S7QmN18PjqVR6ubZh0JfMyNMzftF2yESnZwV_Xi3eS36PjLmja-YltkTU6YqQS8hbibXcswSULcOWCoakUI1a5IwBjQ/s1600/IMG_2845.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyd6RTd3CJtGGEVMNByAMNgCjgudTQDAH2de-bk-iuZIYft-53S7QmN18PjqVR6ubZh0JfMyNMzftF2yESnZwV_Xi3eS36PjLmja-YltkTU6YqQS8hbibXcswSULcOWCoakUI1a5IwBjQ/s1600/IMG_2845.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I had just finished my tin of Harney & Sons' Earl Grey when I read the sad news that is making its
way through the American tea industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John
Harney, the founder of <a href="https://www.harney.com/" target="_blank">Harney & Sons</a>, has passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Harney was a master tea blender and businessman
who began his company in 1983, a time when tea was much less popular in the American
market than it is today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His success is
attributed to his appreciation of fine loose leaf teas and his efforts to teach
the art of tea to restaurateurs and consumers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/business/john-harney-missionary-who-spread-the-gospel-of-tea-dies-at-83.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/business/john-harney-missionary-who-spread-the-gospel-of-tea-dies-at-83.html</span></a></span></span> </span>Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-46360115086597327752014-06-20T22:06:00.000-07:002015-05-17T13:16:00.805-07:00High Tech Tea Bar in San Francisco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">In the chicest of
chic San Francisco neighborhoods has appeared a chic and tech savvy tea
bar. Opened just since June 12th, the
Samovar Tea Bar is located on Valencia St. in the Mission district. This shop combines precision machines and
computer technology with high quality teas and a zen-like decor. I’ve been in three times since its opening
and each time had a perfect cup of tea.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Everything about the
bar is minimalist - its airy contemporary interior design, the simplicity of
its clean white finishes, its natural wood and stone surfaces. There’s not much seating to be found, what
little there is is essentially a stone bench – not exactly conducive to
lingering. There are only 9 tea options,
each as single servings. Even the food
menu is concise – just two scone options, sweet or savory. This minimalism along with the technology
used to prepare the tea, heightens the focus on the tea itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">Innovative tea
technology is used at the brewing stations.
A series of Android tablet controlled <a href="http://alphadominche.com/steampunk/steampunk-mod/" target="_blank">Steampunk </a>machines by <a href="http://alphadominche.com/" target="_blank">Alpha Dominche</a> line the bar. These machines (a.k.a. crucibles) are sleek, elegant,
glass and steel devices. The customer
can watch the precision brewing in action as steam is injected into water from
below to heat it to the correct temperature before brewing to the precisely
allotted time. It was fascinating to
watch the machines in action. And here’s a photo
of my freshly brewed English Breakfast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">This tea bar should not
to be confused with the tea lounges in other parts of the City by the same
owner since the Samovar Tea Bar is a distinctly different experience. While the lounges promote a lingering
intimate tea experience with cushioned plush seating, a long list of teas
served brewing in pots of several servings, and a food service; the bar
distills the essence of a tea moment into a streamlined, single serve, no meal
operation that taps into the artisanal yet tech savvy clientele of the Bay
Area.</span></span><br />
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-5212761665047880632014-06-12T06:53:00.000-07:002014-06-12T10:16:26.743-07:00Sweet and Stellar at the World Tea Expo 2014<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">Last weekend I had
the pleasure of touring the convention floor at the 2014 World Tea Expo in Long
Beach, CA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were all kinds of wonderful
products related to tea – tea pots, packaging, books, cozies, porcelain tea
sets, tea brewing machines, and of course a huge variety of teas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One sweet idea and one stellar idea caught my
attention.</span></span><br />
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literally icing on the cake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just about
every celebration includes a cake. How about decorating it with tea inspired icing
flavors? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what the folks at </span><a href="http://www.modernteagirl.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;">ModernTea Girl</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> do<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with their Matcha Latte, Lady Earl Grey, and
Chocolate Chai and more.</span></span></span><br />
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new concept from <a href="http://www.justea.com/" target="_blank">JusTea</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their tea star is a cluster of oolong tea
leaves tied to a string and dried in the shape of a star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a clever way to provide loose leaf tea
that’s as convenient as a tea bag! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
so pretty I think it could double as a Christmas ornament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It certainly brings attention to their orthodox
handcrafted teas from Kenya. I bought some to try at home and found the tea stars make a wonderful
cup of tea rich with complex flavors.</span></span><br />
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-70055515927480892722014-06-08T10:57:00.001-07:002015-05-14T23:53:43.611-07:00Pretty Things for Holding Tea at the World Tea Expo 2014<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444;">Part of the fun of
exploring the convention exhibitions at the World Tea Expo is getting to experience
the plethora of beautiful tea objects. Here are photos of a few that were
especially beautiful.</span></span></span><br />
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for loose leaf tea by Kotodo Takahashi Corporation [1].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re wrapped in handmade Japanese washi
paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Washi paper is a traditionally
made from kozo, mitsumata, or gamp plant fibers [2]. These bold colors and prints in distinctively Japanese style really make a lively statement.</span></span></span><br />
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fine china from <a href="http://www.coastlinetableto/" target="_blank">Coastline Imports</a>. </span><span style="color: #444444;">
Coastline Imports had delicate bone china tea sets with flower decoration and soft pastel
colors. These tea pots and cups are in a style that I imagine my
grandmother, her grandmother, and of course I too, would love to use to serve tea.</span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><br />
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children by <a href="http://reutter%20porcelain/" target="_blank">Reutter Porcelain</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span>I’ve never had a Peter Rabbit tea set, but
somehow looking at these, made me nostalgic. Reutter Porcelain is of German-made
miniature craftsmanship. [3]</span></span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="color: #444444;">Today at the World Tea Expo 2014 in Long Beach California, tea master Yoon Hee Kim
demonstrated the beauty and serenity in the traditional Korean tea
ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yoon Hee Kim is a certified tea
master with the Tea Culture Association of Korea and she teaches and performs
the traditional art of the Korean Tea Ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yoon Hee is also an instructor for the <a href="http://www.teausa.com/14613/specialty-tea-institute" target="_blank">U.S. Tea Association’s SpecialtyTea Institute (STI)</a>. [1]</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">[1]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.nwteafestival.com/Speakers/YoonHeeKim.php">http://www.nwteafestival.com/Speakers/YoonHeeKim.php</a></span></div>
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Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-42559626899647409342014-05-29T18:41:00.001-07:002015-05-15T00:03:38.568-07:00Chai Mookie<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #444444;"></span><span style="color: #444444;">I love chai, so when we passed by the <a href="http://wwww.chaimookie.com/" target="_blank">Chai Mookie</a> stand at New York City’s 2014 Coffee and Tea
Festival, I had to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;">It was hard to
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the tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend and I sampled their
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JRORK7Q/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00JRORK7Q&linkCode=as2&tag=teadre06-20&linkId=43RZAU5ZTYC4CVYV" target="_blank">Click here to find a blend on Amazon.com</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"></span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">My Coco Mookie chai tea blend came in a neatly folded and
crisp brown bag with the name of the company, Chai Mookie, written in large
letters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chai Mookie, I soon discovered
sells exclusively organic and fair trade chai and has created so far about
seven signature blends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chai Mookie expands
upon the tradition of masala chai from India, which is typically made with
black tea and spices such as cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and cardamom.[1] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;">
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festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first question for this striking,
over 6’2” inches, dirty blond and blue eyed American man, raised in a small
town in Vermont, was:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how did he get
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unusual chai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “Dirty Mookie Blend”
combines ground espresso beans and chai tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Coco Mookie” has no tea in it at all and instead contains raw cacao
beans (the chocolate bean) ground to a fine powder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though traditional India chai has black
tea, Chai Mookie’s “Classic Mookie” version as no tea in it at all but does
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<span style="color: #444444;">[1]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>http://coffeetea.about.com/od/teaandtisanebasics/a/Masala-Chai-101.htm</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"></span>Tea Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707869837658769050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068299629282582927.post-7522718136303936172014-05-16T21:43:00.001-07:002014-05-17T14:11:14.329-07:00The Amish Drink Tea, Too!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Aunt Ruthie didn't mind me sharing a photo of her at work at her kiosk. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Because the Amish are well known for living a simple and humble life, I wasn’t expecting to meet an Amish tea vendor with
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw it in the tea shop…silver, shiny and sleek. It had a pocket that was round and deep. I picked it up and found it solid and slightly heavy. This was no dainty little spoon for stirring, but a sturdy one for scooping a measured amount of loose leaf tea. I was hooked even before I read the inscription on the handle, “one cup of perfect tea.” Sure enough, my new beautiful teaspoon gives me just that.
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Is a teaspoon
called a teaspoon because of tea? I did some research into the
etymology and origins of the teaspoon to find out. The short and sweet
answer is, yes. In British dictionaries, a teaspoon is defined in two ways. It is not only defined
as a measurement but “as a small spoon” used for “adding sugar to tea”
and to “stir tea.”[1] The word teaspoon is quintessentially English as
the word and the spoon developed from England’s love of drinking tea as
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Sugar, like tea, was an expensive
import in the early 1600s that only rulers and the rich could afford.[3]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether to lessen any bitter taste in their
tea or as a means of flaunting one’s wealth, tea drinkers in England, unlike
China, added sugar to their tea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Towards the end of the 1600s, tea and sugar became less expensive and
more common to the average English citizen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, the first written appearance of the word "teaspoon"
was in a 1686 edition of the <span class="yshortcuts1"><span style="color: windowtext;">London
Gazette.[4]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reference appeared in an
ad listing a reward for a stolen</span></span> "three small gilded Tea
Spoons."[5]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">T</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">ea became less expensive thanks to the British East India Company. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charles II had granted the company a monopoly
over trade between England and the East.[5] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of the company’s increasing
importation of tea from Asia, the prices of tea fell in England.[5] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sugar also became less expensive in England as
England imported ever greater amounts of sugar from the colonies in the New
World - where sugar plantations were run on African slave labor.[7]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An interesting side note about that 1686 edition of the <span class="yshortcuts1"><span style="color: windowtext;">London Gazette which listed a
reward for the stolen gilded tea spoons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span>On the same page is another ad listing a reward for a 15
year old run-away negro boy, last seen on Christmas Day (presumably a slave).[5]
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a reminder of the realities of 17th
century world labor conditions that made the proliferation of tea and sugar so affordable
to many.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/2203/pages/2" target="_blank"><span class="reference-text" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">London Gazette Issue 2203 27 December 1686 page 2</span></a><br />
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Cambridge Dictionary, dictionary</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.cambridge</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.org</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/dictionary</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/british</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/teaspoon;
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Princess, </span></span><a href="http://www.tea.co.uk/page.php?id=96"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.tea.co.uk/page.php?id=96</span></span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">[4]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/198423?redirectedFrom=teaspoon"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">ˈ</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">tea-spoon, n.". OED Online. Oxford University Press. 27 June 2012</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No. 2203/4,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/2203/pages/2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/2203/pages/2</span></span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Britain, 1715 </u></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item107515.html<span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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