Tea Xmas Gifts

If they don't have a teapot, then a teapot and some loose-leaf tea would be just the thing. I would try Upton's:

Chatsford Teapots are about the handiest things around.

Ian

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both carry christmas time tea gifts- you may also wish to purchase a teapot, cup, or tea for one several sites have lovely items including

A trip to Chinatown. A trip to an ethnic store. Last years $100 tetsubins are $10 in discount stores. I always shop the department stores during the holidays. Ebay Russian lomonosov cobalt teapots. Tip save yourself a bundle and get the coffee pot version. Barnes-Noble bookstore is selling thermos like teapots for beverage holder. For tea puer cakes or tuocha, 10lb tins of Lipton Yellow Label, 5lb bags of restaurant tea. The newest item this year, not in American retail or on websites, 'Name Baru' Korean tea infusion sets. The cutest ergonometric item I've seen in a long time. My local tea shoppe has them (expensive) and Korean store (inexpensive). I was able to find the Made in Switzerland teapots at

in local retail. Relegates Chatsford and Bodum to tupperware. If you buy from website recommendations in this group it's what everybody has except me. But if you don't drive or like UPS delivery because they bring it to your door and the battery pack in your wheelchair won't get you too the mailbox and back without a jumpstart here are some neat items at a website never mentioned before . Oh I'd luv to get my hands on that french press. I've got plans.

Jim

My Chatsford pot is great. I've been reluctant to buy a glass teapot because I'm an often slow drinker and am under the impression that glass pots allow tea to cool faster than a porcelain or pottery pot.

Sorry s/b 'Namu Baru' the Korean wholesale exporter. I don't know if the sets have a name perse.

Jim