Lately I’ve been blessed to explore some western landscape. Traveling through northwest Utah, one is witness to huge expanses of rock, very vertical as well as intricately layered horizontally. From the valley, one also sees vertical forests of pine, and in the distance, more hills and snow-capped mountains just below the clouds. Even places most [...]
Green tea is one of the most ubiquitous teas on the market. Tasty, full of antioxidants, and recognizable to all tea drinkers, green tea is a favorite among many tea enthusiasts. In fact, it is precisely for these reasons that green tea is often taken for granted. As green tea is so familiar to us [...]
It was three-and-a-half years ago that I converted to tea after thirty years of drinking stinking coffee. The wonderful thing about tea is that you can drink it all day long and suffer neither the jitters nor the social plague of coffee breath. For those of you who subscribe to the creed that freedom is [...]
“The perfect choice
…a well deserved moment,
to collect my thoughts,
to breathe and think:
how good it is to have Some Tea.”
- “Some Tea” by Alan Farnham
At the moment I stepped into the ritzy hotel decorated with holiday trim and took a seat at the dining table filled with fancy teapots, matching cups and saucers, warm scones, dainty [...]
In an earlier post, I described our company’s foray into the world of social network/media marketing. This month I’m sharing one result of our efforts in the very useful world of twittering. Included in that is a link to a food blogger’s review of the occasion.
Twitter is a tool for small and large businesses alike [...]
Since I had so much fun (and learned so much) writing last month’s “Tea and Social Media” post, here is Part 2. First up this month - Facebook! Facebook underwent some big changes recently, changing their “fan pages” to business pages. Now people on Facebook just have to “like” your page, instead of becoming a [...]
Last year, Jay and I were awarded the grand prize of $25,000 in the first annual Movers and Changers business plan competition sponsored by mtvU and the NYSE for our “One Tea, One Tree” concept. For every tea product we sell, we will plant a tree in our local wetlands, here in New Orleans. As [...]
A trip to the Dobra tea house has a way of gathering all the elements of the day and making them a part of the tea-drinking experience. We drink beverages distractedly throughout our multi-tasking lives all the time, but a tea house makes the beverage central. The tea bowls placed in the center of the [...]
Recently I began talking to some of the kids at my middle school about tea. I asked three of my classmates a few simple tea-related questions, with every intention of educating them on the subject, and was rather amused by some of the things they came up with. Some were clearly more tea-educated than others.
Question: [...]
The first time I was introduced to mate - as in yerba mate - I couldn’t help but gape at the unique and noteworthy cups that contained this Argentinian and Brazilian brew. I had never seen such a beverage before and was not adventuresome enough that first time to explore further.
A few friends and I [...]
