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build your own custom tea blends

hey everyone, i found this site, www.teanas.com, where yer able to create your own custom blends. they only have flavor...
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posted by alee
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by alee

Charcoal roasted oolong, mmn?

I watched Olivier Assayas' film "HHH - A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien" yesterday. The film crew visit a cafe in a town w...
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posted by teaismud
9 comments posted 23yrs posted by teaismud

Where do you generally buy your tea?

I'm from Paris (France) and I buy teas from Betjeman And Barton. No doubt it's one of the most prestigious tea merchant...
6 comments posted 23yrs
posted by etiennelefg
6 comments posted 23yrs posted by etiennelefg

Antioxidant content and multiple infusions

As I understand it, almost all of the caffeine in green tea will be dissolved in the first infusion, and so any followi...
0 comments posted 23yrs
posted by look
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by look

Second yixin teapot and king 913 oolong tea

I bought a new red yixin teapot and King 913 Oolong tea to brew in it. When I bought the tea I did not know it had gins...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by opother
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by opother

A Tea Addicts Strange Compulsion

Hi ALl, Its me once again starting a new thread!!! I just wanted to mention that in addition to having a tea addiction...
7 comments posted 23yrs
posted by efurst
7 comments posted 23yrs posted by efurst

Contradiction

A puzzlement. All my long tea-drinking life, I had read and heard that tea leaves perform best when unencumbered by tea...
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posted by kuberaj
11 comments posted 23yrs posted by kuberaj

Where to find >3-min sandglass?

Using an egg timer to brew black teas has really made a difference over just wandering off for a while. (Electronic tim...
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posted by spamdogma_I
7 comments posted 23yrs posted by spamdogma_I

new book about tea

Tea: Addiction, Explotation and Empire by Roy Moxham ... from the Amazon.co.uk site ... Roy Moxham is Conservator of th...
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posted by teapot
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by teapot

Pointer to the FAQ and Vendor Lists

The rec.food.drink.tea FAQ is posted four times each year. It can also be found on the World Wide Web at the following...
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posted by robchr9999
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by robchr9999

Green Tea Raises Serotonin Levels

Hi Everyone, I remember recently doing a search on one of the search engines out there for green tea +serotonin just as...
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posted by efurst
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by efurst

tea addicts

Hi Everyone, DOes anyone here consider themselves a tea addict??? I myself have gone into the upper limits of up to 14-...
19 comments posted 23yrs
posted by efurst
19 comments posted 23yrs posted by efurst

OT: Cancelling a Usenet message

In a thread above, I mistakenly called Candie, "Cindy". I immediately canceled the message and re-sent a corrected one....
3 comments posted 23yrs
posted by crymadSPAMBLOCK
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by crymadSPAMBLOCK

My first use of Yixing teapot

I am relativly new to tea drinking and my newly purchased yixing teapot seems to add more body and earthyness to my pu-...
3 comments posted 23yrs
posted by opother
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by opother

Yamamotoyama tea gives me a headache

Hi Everyone, Has anyone tried Yamamotoyama tea (Genmai-Cha type) or the Brown Rice with Green tea kind??? I've recently...
6 comments posted 23yrs
posted by efurst
6 comments posted 23yrs posted by efurst