Politics of Tea… July 2015 Tea Purge and the Fall of the Reign of Tupperware 12 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 Apologies. This blog will come off reading very speechy/runon/fragment happy because I'm not really awake yet. For years now (almost going on a decade) I've been using handmedown Tupperware to…
Politics of Tea… Water for Tea, an Osmotic Reversal 28 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 Although I hesitate to recommend it, there's a short demo video available on Amazon as well as a few review videos on YouTube if you're considering the Cuisinart PerfecTemp I…
Oceania… The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Tea 4 Jun 20158 Apr 2017 Obviously, I am no macroeconomist, nor do i purport to prognosticate the exact outcome of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, but the TPP's birth will have a clear impact on the tea…
85%… Silver Yin Zhen Pearls ~ TeaVana 29 Apr 201530 Jan 2016 I've been keeping my eyes peeled for the past couple of years for any sight of the handful of Yellow teas in the West. So far, nothing. I'm thinking it's…
88%… India Breakfast ~ Tulsi 19 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 Today's post is the first of the week, coming on a Thursday, and it was actually supposed to have been one of last week's theme blogs... *dies* Suffice it to…
A2 Local… Youthberry via Starbucks 13 Mar 201530 Jan 2016 Ack. I was buried under a blizzard of work today and didn't get around to that third fair trade review I promised. It'll probably be pushed back to next week.…
Black… Organic Darjeeling 11 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 I may have told some of you I'd planned to take a road trip last weekend to Chicago and hunt for a special tea house to review for my blog's…
A2 Local… Last Kombucha Post Ever 16 Feb 201522 Mar 2015 Fair warning: today's post is rather lengthy as I ended up waxing philosophical and then managed to scare the crap out of myself while researching the subject... It should probably…
Black… Decaf Earl Grey 16 Jan 201520 Dec 2015 Since it's hot tea season, I wanted to have at least one post that was dedicated to what most people probably think of as regular "hot tea". Naturally, since practically…
A2 Local… Mystic Black & Calm 13 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 Writing a second blog for the night! For my last I stop I decided to swing by the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room (and I use the word liberally). For some…
Green… Shincha – First Harvest ~ Itoen 26 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 I actually believe this is the eighth iteration of my blog (Happiness Buh-rometers I-VII are archived and hopefully I'll never need to look at them again). I've tried seven other…
A2 Local… Bushman’s Skinny Tea ~ Spice Merchants 27 Jul 201420 Dec 2015 When i started into tea as a hobby, i'd never heard of Rooibos, let alone had any idea how to pronounce it (I've since heard it said four different ways).…
Green… Matcha Love ~ Itoen 2 Jun 201421 Dec 2015 A while back I wrote about my fondness for canned green tea. Yesterday I discovered a new species that can be got State-side. Itoen, better known for their bottled green…
Politics of Tea Hardly Fair Trade 15 Apr 20145 Nov 2014 So it's all well and good that i have a tea blog, but how you may ask, do I justify such conspicuous consumption of a product that often does not provide…