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Kyoto Journal Features Contemporary Tea Voices


The upcoming issue of Kyoto Journal is featuring some of the finest voices of tea. Looks like issue #71 is the lucky number of tea. It does not get much better than this. Some of the most passionate tea lovers who have made tea their way of life are covering every leaf and bud.

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Boylan’s Been Bottling and Bubbling Since 1891


Oh boy, and they call it artisanal soda!  That is just how elegant Boylan’s clear, complex, uncluttered natural  flavors ring. Redolent with sassy fruits and fragrant spices.  Some wildly proclaim it to be “The Best Soda on Earth”
Boylan’s sodas of bygone days, are so good they could be show cased gilded frames. Maybe American poets […]

Tea Trivia - Biscuit Dunking


British physicist, Len Fisher, has been employed by a well-known biscuit (cookie) manufacturer to define the optimum dunking time for its confectionery. His findings are way off the mark. For the uninitiated, bickie dunking is a procedure by which you plonk yourself down in your favorite chair, take the weight off your feet and slurp, […]