A Nice Cuppa

Starbucks is the type of company that people love and hate to extremes.
Those who love the coffee have taken to enjoying it everywhere — at the airport, hotel, office, home, etc. The word ‘coffee’ is even being replaced with Starbucks altogether. Walking along the streets of New York and at the office, […]

Next time you’re taking up the tables at a tea house or sipping a cup at home with friends, here’s something to talk about: the history of tea. Check out the timeline at 2bAsnob.com. Not to worry about the title–with this knowledge, you are more likely to be dubbed a tea […]

Coffee culture is hot; it’s sophisticated and it’s everywhere. There are those among us who can rattle off the meaning of Espresso Con Panna, Macchiatos and Breve’s with nary a blink of an eye, just like some people can tell you what Malbec and Torrontes are. (they are the red and white wine varietals of […]

I don’t know when exactly my epiphany was. I know it struck sometime last summer, in the height of heat and humidity, in a dark and musty Virginian dorm room where I was staying for a job. I know there was desperation in my northeastern soul as I battled the gigantic bugs that […]

One of the latest cooking trends is the use of tea in recipes. I have seen Ming Tsai prepare food using a tea smoking technique in his wok. I recently made the Junshan Chicken with Silver-Needle Tea recipe from Revolutionary Chinese Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop which called for infusing a little bit of water with […]

Adorn Magazine calls itself “the crafty girl’s guide to embellishing life.” The Spring 2007 issue has a really cute feature on tea parties. They make it look like so much fun that I want to grab my art supplies and start creating! As a supplement to the magazine article, several web exclusive features are available […]

With coffee being the #1 drink in much of the world, there has to be an awful lot of coffee grounds out there going into the trash. What do you do with yours? From Badgetts’s Coffee Journal (www.aboutcoffee.net) a web site dedicated to all things coffee, comes some amazing and very handy tips.
Most people […]

Technology is amazing, and no more amazing than what can be developed that might look to make your life a whole lot easier. Take for instance, the commercial that shows our poor haggard housewife attempting to mash a whole mountain of potatoes; you know what she looks like….hair straggling over her flushed, overworked face, eyes […]

I am inspired by coffee cups. I have several different ones that remind me of a past vacation or a certain person. I like to select my coffee or tea cup each morning based on my mood. Last year I read Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life by Keri Smith. It has […]

Bigelow’s Charleston Tea Plantation is America’s only working tea plantation. Beginning this year a new tour will be offered which will allow guests to travel throughout the plantation and see the thousands of historic tea bushes. On their ride, guests will be educated in how tea is planted, grown, nurtured and harvested. In addition to […]