tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131914532024-02-06T22:31:13.828-08:00Tea For TwoTea For Two has reviews of Tea Rooms, Coffee Houses & Cafes in North America. Tips on making the perfect cup of tea or coffee. All things tea and coffee!Olive Tree Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-60596757862661779012013-06-02T18:06:00.001-07:002013-06-02T18:06:34.519-07:00Tea For Dogs
I want some tea
Some guy in England has created tea for dogs. Perhaps I will get some for my dog. He seems to like the idea. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-13861987862242989542012-04-20T07:12:00.000-07:002012-04-20T07:12:06.931-07:00Fancy Teacups - Who Uses Them?
How many of us drink our tea out of cups such as this one on the left? I like to have my afternoon tea out of one of the cups and saucers my grandmother left me.
There's just something about sipping tea out of a cup like this one that is soothing.Olive Tree Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-34764223013569168492011-10-03T12:10:00.000-07:002011-10-03T12:10:45.247-07:00Study looks at green tea for colon cancer preventionDrinking green tea is generally recognised as heathful, though scientific studies on this have been few. A new trial aims to determine whether green tea can prevent colon cancer -- the biggest such trial in the world to date, according to Thomas Seufferlein, director of the Department of Internal Medicine at Halle University Hospital in Germany and co-head of the research team.
Read MoreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-52561934447934702372011-09-26T13:59:00.000-07:002011-09-26T13:59:59.072-07:00Darjeeling To Host Tea and Tourism FestivalThis December Gorkha Janmukti Morcha will organize Tea and Tourism festival in Darjeeling. The aim of the festival is to aid Darjeeling tourism following the recent earthquake.
Read MoreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-29660720841776057302011-09-02T15:34:00.000-07:002011-09-02T15:34:50.901-07:00100-year-old runs with tea for fuelThe world's oldest marathon runner has revealed that drinking cups of tea and eating ginger curry, combined with "being happy", has helped him train for 10 miles every day since he turned 100.
Fauja Singh took up marathon running after his 89th birthday and has now completed seven races.
He holds the world record for the men's over-90 category after completing the 2003 Toronto marathon in five Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-46657209762908330312011-08-22T08:05:00.000-07:002011-08-22T08:07:46.268-07:00Kenrick Coffee Mill from England, circa 1850
Kenrick Coffee Mill ca 1850
I confess. I love coffee even more than tea.This is one of my antique coffee mills in my personal collection. It's one of my oldest.
It's an octagonal Kenrick coffee mill from England and the mark on the bottom reads "A K & Sons"
It measures 15 cm high and just over 12 cm in diameter.
The best date I can give it is circa 1850. The Kenrick firm Olive Tree Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-7274951055421327922011-08-20T17:14:00.000-07:002011-08-20T17:14:24.248-07:00Teacups for Drinking a Leisurely Cup of Tea
Antique Teacup
This is one of my favourite tea-cups. I have quite a few given to me by my Grandmother. Some were hers, some were her mother's.
I had all the teacups in boxes for many years but recently I unpacked them and put them in one of my china cabinets.
There's nothing like drinking tea out of a proper thin china teacup!
Aahhhh....Olive Tree Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-83288801842261397182011-08-10T08:43:00.000-07:002011-08-10T08:44:24.923-07:00Australians Drinking More TeaINCREASED health benefits, more variety and new twists on an ancient tradition has seen the popularity of tea gather steam in Australia.
Research has shown tea has many health benefits, from lowering blood sugar and cholesterol to reducing the risk of heart disease.
Yet for the last four decades Australians have chosen coffee over tea, which is the second-most popular beverage in the world Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-39876564964441528372011-07-25T09:43:00.000-07:002011-07-25T09:45:21.843-07:00Boston Tied For 2nd Place in Experiment Measuring HonestyOK its not really about the tea but I found it interesting. Boston - last year's winner of a social experiment by Honest Tea - tied with Seattle and Dallas as the second most honest city in America. The organic bottled tea company set up a pop-up store by the Prudential Center last Tuesday – in the middle of the heat wave – with bottles of iced tea and a sign asking customers to pay $1 on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-58286245828887254672011-04-10T16:31:00.000-07:002011-04-10T16:32:55.358-07:00Green tea may help alleviate Urinary IncontinenceA researcher has found drinking green tea may help alleviate Urinary Incontinence in middle-aged and older women. Just one more good thing from tea.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-15892820862432060242011-03-11T09:59:00.000-08:002011-03-11T10:02:06.839-08:00Coffee lowers stroke riskMany researchers now believe that coffee is good for you. And it should actually be put in the category of a health food. A study published in the journal Stroke finds that drinking coffee lowers stroke risk in women by 22 to 25 percent over a decade.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-91895131555169664052011-01-02T15:46:00.000-08:002011-01-02T15:47:34.082-08:00India's tea farmers say climate changing brewIn this humid, lush region where an important part of the world's breakfast is born, the evidence of climate change is — literally — a weak tea.Growers in tropical Assam state, India's main tea growing region, say rising temperatures have led not only to a drop in production but to subtle, unwelcome changes in the flavor of their brews.The area in northeastern India is the source of some of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-19585368627013439772010-12-20T10:07:00.000-08:002010-12-20T10:09:07.887-08:00What gives Earl Grey tea its taste?Earl Grey is named for a British prime minister of the 1830s. The history of how he got the tea that is rather unclear, but it was probably a gift to him.Read MoreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-44254978989017561912010-12-17T15:34:00.001-08:002010-12-17T15:34:49.845-08:00Drinking tea may prevent weight gain caused by a junk food diet.Drinking tea may prevent weight gain caused by a junk food diet.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1339569/Drinking-tea-counter-weight-gain-caused-junk-food-diets.html#ixzz18PnEvG3pUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-10316719014185407332010-12-06T12:21:00.000-08:002010-12-06T12:22:23.429-08:00Hospital workers won't be paid for tea timeANGER has boiled over with staff at a North East health trust as their traditional tea breaks have been stopped.All staff at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been told they will not be paid for their tea breaks.Read More http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2010/12/06/hospital-workers-won-t-be-paid-for-tea-time-72703-27775519/#ixzz17Mgz1nv6Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-80694225924024526392010-11-18T07:09:00.000-08:002010-11-18T07:11:36.694-08:00Could killing cancer be as simple as sipping tea.Could killing cancer be as simple as sipping tea? Meet a doctor on a mission to replace chemotherapy with something a whole lot more soothing.First you pour the water. Then you add papaya leaves - then you heat it up and drink it down. If only killing cancer was as simple as sipping tea.http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/could-killing-cancer-be-as-simple-as-sipping-tea%3FUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-64944741731512052032010-10-29T15:36:00.000-07:002010-10-29T15:39:32.693-07:00Study Finds Green Tea Offers No Protection From Breast CancerAlthough some research has suggested that drinking green tea might help protect women from breast cancer, a large Japanese study has come to a different conclusion. No overall association between green tea intake and the risk of breast cancer among Japanese women who have habitually drunk green tea was found. The findings suggest that green tea intake within a usual drinking habit is unlikely to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-52963590534595571812010-10-22T07:04:00.000-07:002010-10-22T07:10:52.490-07:00Strike by Kenyan Tea Workers Enters Fifth DayA strike by Kenyan tea-industry workers entered its fifth day today, with labor unions and employers disputing the level of support and the reason for a breakdown in talks. About 20,000 workers are on strike. The strike continued after managers failed to attend a meeting scheduled for yesterday.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-15298129840481144312010-10-12T06:26:00.000-07:002010-10-12T06:29:53.025-07:00World's Largest Cup of Tea Brewed in Sri LankaIt took more than 5 hours to brew the world's largest cup of tea in Sri Lanka on Saturday. 1,000 gallons of water. 140 pounds of tea. 350 pounds of sugar. Mmmmmmmm Good.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-14133608102486166872010-09-28T08:33:00.000-07:002010-09-28T08:35:20.709-07:00Mixing Scotch whisky with Darjeeling teaAlthough willing to experiment with exotic flavours Indians still prefer drinks with an Indian touch, even if it means having an unorthodox cocktail of Scotch whisky and Darjeeling tea, says an international whisky connoisseur."A cocktail made by mixing whisky with tea is catching up fast in India.Read MoreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-58314659004164298172010-09-04T08:17:00.000-07:002010-09-04T08:19:42.323-07:00Trip to China unveils rare rock teaLast month, my family went to see the Wuyi Mountain area in the Fujian province of China. The first thing I learned about the place was that it is famous for its rock tea. Rock tea is not made with rocks, but with the leaves of tea trees that grow in the cracks in the mountains. The rock tea produced there is called Da Hong Pao, or Big Red Robe, which is a very grand name in Chinese.Read More Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-92114814274725929042010-08-09T09:05:00.000-07:002010-08-09T10:04:31.404-07:00Honest Tea launches beverage with steviaHonest Tea has launched Passion Fruit Green Tea with Maqui Berry. The ready-to-drink organic beverage is sweetened with stevia. Read More Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-11902845780534929152010-06-18T11:41:00.000-07:002010-06-18T11:43:52.315-07:00Women who drink tea more likely to develop arthritisWomen who worry about their bones aching as they age should think twice before sipping a cup of tea, a new study suggests.Read MoreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-90203668979749293352010-06-15T16:26:00.000-07:002010-06-15T16:28:29.973-07:00Red wine, green tea prevent prostate cancerPolyphenols, present in red wine and green tea inhibit cancer growth. A discovery that could lead to a major advance in the treatment of prostate cancer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13191453.post-77621182073809806872010-06-05T07:25:00.000-07:002010-06-05T07:26:44.369-07:00Green tea extract may slow leukaemiaGreen tea extract may slow leukaemia, researchers have suggested.Read MoreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0