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Flavor foods with Earl Grey and other teas. Photo courtesy Mighty Leaf Tea. Pasta and rice can be elegantly flavored with tea, just by adding a tea bag or a tea ball of loose tea to the water. Tea is an herb, after all. Lapsang souchong adds a wonderful smoky taste. Earl Grey gives a…
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Buy refill bags instead of new canisters. Photo courtesy TayTea.com. Quite a few specialty tea companies package their fine teas in metal canisters, helping to extend the vibrancy of the tea by keeping out air and light. The problem is, if you’re a regular tea drinker, you can end up with quite a lot of…
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Cool off this summer with a refreshing beverage, like the bottled tea made from this week’s Gourmet Giveaway prize-sponsor: MaryAnna’s Sweet Tea. As we noted last week, MaryAnna’s all-natural bottled sweet tea tastes like fresh-brewed. The teas are made with filtered water, premium tea and cane sugar. The Summer Sweet Tea has just the right…
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Zhena’s Gypsy Tea is perfectly packaged in a metal container with an airtight lid. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. June is National Tea Month—drink those antioxidants up! Tea is a fragile product: oxygen, humidity (moisture), heat, light and other aromas are its enemies. They cause the tea to go stale (lose its flavor)…
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Get Mom a Kati for loose tea. Photo courtesy TeaForte.com. Loose tea can take a bit more effort to brew, but most of the best teas are loose, not bagged. So lovers of loose tea are always looking for the best new solution. Tea Forte, makers of the prettiest tea bags in the world (see…
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