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Feeling fluish?

I shouldn’t have to tell you about the health benefits of tea. People have been reporting on that for years now — they love to throw around terms like “antioxidants” and “flavonoids.” Here’s some information from the Tea Council of the U.S.A., Inc., in case you want to steep a cuppa tea and sit down for some feel-good reading about what you’re drinking. [Read: Drink tea and feel smug.] But, let’s get serious for a minute — you can hardly switch on the evening news lately without hearing about the encroaching flu season. I’m going to take the advice from the Centers for Disease Control and get my flu shot as soon as I can, and I think you should do the same. And forget about colds — with a daughter in daycare I can’t wash my hands often enough … Continue reading

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4 top tips to brew a better tea

Here are Two Leaves and a Bud, top four tips to brewing a betta’ cup of tea. But first and foremost, use one of our great organic teas! 1. Water: If you have good drinking water from your faucet, then use it. Otherwise, use bottled water or filtered water. 2. Temperature: in a kettle, bring the cold water to boiling and turn off the heat. Let it sit a few minutes before pouring into the teapot. In the meantime, condition the teapot by putting a small amount of hot water in it, swish it around, and pour it out. This will help prevent the teapot from cracking when the hot water is poured in, and also helps keep the teapot warm. Generally for green tea, the hot water temperature should be low, about 180 degree water. For black Tea, the … Continue reading

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How to Make Tea Circa 1941

Although shot in 1941, this little Gem from the BFI National Archive has the all the needed tips for passionate tea drinkers!† you will benefit from the six golden tips for making the perfect cuppa’ tea, as well as countless other handy hints (never store your tea next to cheese, for example). There’s an assessment of the pros and cons of various teapots and words of wisdom about the tea bush itself. Everything we wanted you to know at Two Leaves and a Bud is there, but if you need more information on tea and organic tea, we still have it too!

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Our Tea Gift Set Sale continues

Share the gift of tea with your favorite tea lover! two leaves and a bud offers various tea gift items and tea ware for tea drinkers of all kinds check out our tea tins, tea travelers, and tea samplers.† While supplies last scroll along the bottom to see our discontinued gift sets on SALE – 30% OFF!! All of our tea gifts feature great two leaves and a bud whole leaf organic tea; whether green tea, black tea, herbal tea or white tea.

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Drink Tea to reduce your Risk of Strokes

The NY Daily News Reminds us today, the importance of drinking tea to be in better health and especially reduce our risk of strokes. Try one of our great organic whole leaf tea, black tea or green tea and increase your heart health Tea may thwart strokes, says prof BY Owen Moritz DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, February 20th 2009, 2:01 AM Drinking tea has many advantages, one of which is reducing risk of stroke. Drinking tea has many advantages, one of which is reducing risk of stroke. Drinking three or more cups of tea a day – green or black – can reduce the risk of stroke, a UCLA study has found. “By drinking three cups of tea a day, the risk of a stroke was reduced 21%,” said Lenore Arab, professor of medicine at the David Geffen School … Continue reading

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