It was a dark and stormy night when stepped out of the alley onto "rec.food.drink.tea" and cried out:
Well, I started a post earlier, and I wanted to summarize my
> findings. I was mainly curious as to the 'proper' use of a
> samovar and teapot.....
Geeze Louise, Mike. That's a lot of work.
Kudos to you! Now I just gotta get me a samovar of my own. :)
Derek
I'll fire up the Turkish
Mike, Let me have a mailing address and I will send you a free sample of Georgian black tea that I brought back in August - choice of hand made, village made or factory made - I have 34 different types!
I too would be interested to know how it performs in a samovar.
Offer is also open to any other tea enthusiast eager to sample Georgian tea.
Nigel at Teacraft
I -think- so - the local Iranian markets have, besides a lot of tea, various (and many) types of sugar and jam. The sugar is available in rock candy, cubes, and irregular white 'chunks' which is what I think you are looking for.
Do you see loaf sugar on this page? Look for 'cone'...
juan> Have you found a source for Russian-style loaf sugar? Holding a piece of
Please let me warn you...with my many Iranian friends during college (I was a tutor for foreign students), I drank many a fine Golabi or Darjeeling with sugar between the teeth...and *every* one of us had (or developed in my case) a huge cavity just in the spot where we habitually held our sugars. :) Funny how a good many of those friends happened to want to go into dentistry!
Ah, those days of "chay-e dam ghand pahlu" (fresh hot tea with a sugar cube on the side)...
Shibumi
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