It’s the height of summer, and these long, hot days practically beg us to get a bit more creative with our liquid refreshment. If you still haven’t gotten around to making a few tea cocktails to dazzle your guests at a summer… Continue reading
Based on my anecdotal evidence, high-quality tea is coming into its own. In fact, I would even go so far as to say there is a c-change happening in the tea industry. I felt it this past January as I crisscrossed the United States… Continue reading
My mother-in-law, Marjorie Blumenfeld, was a woman of exquisite taste. Beautiful clothing and hats, the freshest foods in Manhattan, and an exquisitely decorated apartment at 110 Riverside Drive… Continue reading
The period from 1904 to 1908 was a bellwether one for tea in the United States, or for those with more traditional tea-drinking habits, the beginning of the end of the practice of enjoying properly prepared tea… Continue reading
My grandmother kept her tea in a wooden caddy that had an ivory band around the lid, and a tiny brass-bound lock that turned with a smooth and promising click. The lock, I suppose, was an echo of the 18th Century… Continue reading
What would the scorching summer heat be without freshly brewed iced tea? I always begin my summers missing my daily hot tea … until I brew my first batch of iced tea and I fall in love with it all over again… Continue reading