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Tag Archives: tea
Tea adventures with Heath
Our certification manager, Heath Hillman, has had the kind of tea training around the world most of us only dream of. We chatted with Heath about Germany’s role in tea production, what it’s like to stand in a tea garden, and how we can all get better at tasting tea. Continue reading
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Tagged Elbe River, Hamburg Germany, tea, tea garden, tea tasting, two leaves and a bud
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Our 2011 tea-centric holiday gift guide
Choosing gifts for tea drinkers is not only easy, it’s quite fun! We’re presenting our 2011 Gift Guide for Tea Drinkers, with fun stuff we love for the tea drinker in your life, and if you *are* a tea drinker, feel free to print this out and leave it on your kitchen counter, perhaps with “HINT, HINT” written across the top of it, for your family members to stumble across. Continue reading
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Tagged loose tea, organic tea, tea, tea gift, tea gifts, tea sampler, teascale, two leaves and a bud
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The art of gift giving
The gift-giving season isn’t the easiest time of year for many of us. It’s not full of “I found the perfect gift that will tell you just how much I love you” moments. Often times you experience more “I’m so stressed out; I hope you forgive me for this less than perfect gift” moments. (Unless you count the time I designed a beer stein for my dad’s homecrafted brew. That was perfect.) Richard, founder and owner of two leaves and a bud tea. co., passed out some small gifts to those of us who work in the office. We each got a tea sachet-holder, for lack of a better term, made by a local potter. Maybe Richard is sick of watching us over-steeping our tea at our desks, because we don’t have good places to put a used sachet that … Continue reading
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Tagged brew basket, christmas, electric kettle, gifts, holiday gift, honey spoon, loose leaf tea, loose tea, mugs, tea, tea gift, tea gifts
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Time to bag the tea bags
I’m not going to name names here, but you know that bag of tea you’ve had in the pantry for a couple of months? The one you bought because Blue Raspberry Delight tea sounded fantastic as you cruised the grocery store aisles? Take it out, cut it open, and dump it on your kitchen counter. Let me tell you what you’re looking at: tea dust. At least, that’s what we call those miniscule particles of tea that came out of the bag. Now grab the nearest sachet of tea you have — you know what I mean by “sachet,” right? Like a bag, but really more of a pyramid-shaped pouch, that probably cost you a bit more. Rip it open at the seam and dump the contents on the counter (you don’t want to, but this is a learning opportunity.) … Continue reading
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Tagged fuso machine, jug wine, Organic Pomi-berry, Sri Lanka, tea, tea bags, tea in sachets, tea sachets, two leaves and a bud
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Want a nice, warm cup of “infusion?”
You’ve got a burning question: “What kind of tea did the Pilgrims and Native People drink at the first Thanksgiving?” I’m here to help. Or at least, I tried. The answer was both frustrating and educational. This fall I found myself in Plymouth, Mass., the very spot where those Pilgrims set foot in the Americas to make a go of it. Of course, I had to go over to the Plimoth Plantation (yeah, it’s spelled like that) to see a re-creation of a Wampanoag Homesite (the tribe of the Native People who were living in the area back in 1620), and the village of the English colonists, set up to look like it would have in 1627. “Ooh,” I say to myself. “English people drink a lot of tea. I’m going to ask them all about it. This will be … Continue reading
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