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Ellie’s Smoothies
Sweet and Nutritious Smoothies used to be the territory of hippies and health food nuts. In the past few years, they have become more mainstream. More and more chains are opening featuring smoothies as their main item for sale. Smoothies can be...
Tea Pots
A Traditional Way To Brew & Serve Tea What is the first thing that you think about when you hear about tea pots? For most of us, we think of the “I’m a little teapot” song. Teapots have been the traditional way to brew and serve tea for...
What are Tea Pods?
An Easy Way To Get a Great Cup Loose tea, tea bags, tea infusers, now tea pods? Preparing a pot of tea, or a cup of tea has certainly changed a lot over the years. While it was never terribly difficult, it has just gotten easier and faster with the...
Citrus Teas
Naturally Sweet & Refreshing Flavored teas are becoming more and more common as people embrace the health benefits of tea. By adding a flavor that has a refreshing delightful aroma as well as a lightly sweet taste tea blender can make a tea...
Dessert Teas
Wonderful Aroma's & Rich Taste Dessert Teas are not the Classic Southern Sweet Tea but rather tea blends that are in flavors that are typically sweet often in tropical fruity flavors, berries, chocolate, vanilla, caramel, or nuts, etc. Dessert...
Chocolate Teas
A New Idea for an Old Favorite Chocolate tea is never something that occurred to me- the two flavors just did not seem to mix well in my mind. Until I gave it a chance, I was shocked to learn that chocolate can make a great addition to tea. The...
Peach Tea
Hot or Iced, Peach Tea Quenches Your Thirst Peach tea is one of the most popular flavors of tea available. Peach teas can be found in hot and iced varieties and high and low-quality tea. Lipton makes an iced tea that has peach flavoring added. It...
Straight Teas
A Wide Variety of Options & Styles What is straight tea? Is it like flat parsley? Or is it tangled? Straight tea is a tea that is just tea. It is the tea preferred by tea purists, who drink tea for the flavor of the tea, not for fruit flavors...
Fruity Teas
Fruity Teas Someone I know once told me that tea tastes like wet leaves. Touche, essentially tea is the water that wet leaves are soaked in. This does not mean that tea is destined to taste like the leaves from the tree in front of your house are...
Spice Up Your Tea
Flavor Your Favorite Loose Leaf Tea Chai is the generic word for tea in many Asian languages. To people in the west, Chai most often means a milky, sweet, spicy, tea-based drink of wonderfulness. It is very common in India where it is known as Chai...
Making The Perfect Cup
How to Make The Perfect Cup of Tea Can you believe there has been solid scientific research on this topic from collecting statistics, analyzing data, surveying people, etc all to finding out how to make the perfect cup of Tea? Well, there has been....
Coffee, Tea Or Me?
Choosing Between Tea & Coffee What to have for your morning hot beverage, Coffee or Tea? There is an unspoken divide between Tea drinkers and Coffee drinkers, and maybe there shouldn’t be. Like everything else, there are assumptions about...
Types of Tea
More Than Just Your Grandma’s Tea There is more to tea than hot Black Tea. Sure, in the western world Black Tea is the most common tea consumed but it is really just the tip of the iceberg. All true tea comes from the Camilla Sinensis plant,
Benefits of Herbal Tea
Here are some of the suggested benefits of herbal tea when consumed daily: Usually it is recommended that to achieve maximum benefits three to five cups or mugs of tea should be consumed every day.
Loose Leaf vs Bag Tea
Loose Tea is usually made up of whole leaves, or at least larger parts of tea leaves. Because the flavor and aroma of tea are primarily made up of essential oils that evaporate quickly, the smaller bits of tea leaves primarily found in Bagged Teas
What is a Tea Room?
Tea rooms are, somewhat obviously, restaurants or venues focused on drinking and enjoying tea. They are often thought of as snobbish establishments that cater only to people who have refined cultivated palates concerning tea. While this may be true in some cases, more often they are owned and staffed by people with genuine love and passion for tea who love sharing their passion and knowledge with others. Often these are great places to go to when you want to explore some of the more specialty tea blends. The staff is often a great resource for tea drinkers who would like to learn more about preparing and drinking loose tea as opposed to tea bags. Often tea rooms will have some accessories for sale but if not the staff will likely have excellent resources.
In other cultures, tea rooms are supremely common and crucial to the overall culture. They often serve as a place for friends to gather and chat as well as a place to enjoy tea. In the UK, Twinings Tea Room is the oldest tea room, and it is still in operation in its original location.
Often in addition to tea- tea rooms serve light meals and cater to a clientele that is made up of mostly women. Often the atmosphere is relaxed and subdued. During the temperance movement, tea rooms took on an important social role and served as a place where friends could gather and socialize. As this movement passed, tea rooms again became a more sedate place to gather and chat. In the United States, tea houses and tea rooms are gaining in popularity as an alternative to coffeehouses. As tea becomes more fashionable I would expect them to become more and more common, particularly in larger more urban areas. Tea Rooms are often commonly associated with bed and a breakfast as the lighter menu offered often lends itself to tea very well.
Tea houses and tea rooms can be a great place to meet friends and chat as well as to learn about and try new teas from friendly and knowledgeable people.