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Tea leaves are herbs. Photo by Zakir Ghouse | Fotolia. We use the term “herb tea” to specify a tea made of caffeine-free herbs. But black, green, oolong and white teas, which come from the plant Camellia sinensis, are also herbs themselves. According to Chinese legend, in 2737 B.C.E., Emperor Shen Nong discovered tea…
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What can you do if you’ve purchased tea bags or loose tea and you don’t really love the flavor? Turn them into iced tea. Whether it’s black, oolong, green, white or herbal, a tea that’s flat, has too much added flavor or has flavors you don’t like may taste better to you iced. Once chilled,…
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June is National Iced Tea Month; June 10th is National Iced Tea Day. Here’s some iced tea history and trivia.
Sauces are just the beginning of the coffee- accented products from Java-Gourmet. Photo by River Soma | THE NIBBLE. Java-Gourmet is the story of two Bostonians who relocated to the sylvan shores of Keuka Lake in upstate New York. Surrounded by natural beauty, they began to roast coffee to order, slowly air-cooling the beans…
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Matcha is the Japanese ceremonial tea. It’s shade-grown green tea. The leaf is deveined and then stone ground into a fine powder. The bright green powder is whipped into water that is heated to just before boiling. The result: a smooth, vegetal sweetness with no astringency. Matcha is the type of green tea used to…
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