Tea Smoked Salmon
This lightly cured and smoked Salmon can be used as shown here for a first course, or with different accompaniments as a main course.
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Pairings: Smoky Teas
The intense, smoky flavors of certain teas isn’t a fluke. Some are made from leaves actually smoke-cured during preparation, imbuing them with a robust taste that your dad may well appreciate on his special day. If he enjoys a cigar now and then, there are teas perfect to be enjoyed with his smoke, including the green tea listed below. And if a steak on the barbie is his ideal meal, gift him with a smoked tea rub for an unforgettable Father’s Day feast.
A Summer Barbecue
As the weather warms and you fire up your grills, it is second nature to reach for an iced tea or Tea Sangria, but tea isn’t just great accompanying grilled food, it can play a role within that food as well. Consider Matcha and White Bean Dip, or upgrading your S’mores!
Tea-Grilled Wings with Hot Green Dipping Sauce
Since they cook fairly quickly, plan to grill these wings as the last item you are serving and then keep the tea cocktails, beers, and iced tea flowing!
The Comfort of Tea
During these difficult times, tea’s calming effect comforted many, but mothers most of all. If there is something missing that will make her everyday tea ritual more pleasant, now is the time to purchase that convenience. Consider a bright teapot, a brewer, tea caddy, porcelain cups, or mug. If mom has everything she needs close at hand, consider a gift of tea-themed jewelry or a book to curl up with till normalcy returns.
Inspired by Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey aired for six seasons in the U.S., and its American fans became legion. Millions could not resist the upscale dramas of the Crawley family and its servants. If your beloved mater is among the Downtonites, why not treat her this year to a tea service fit for the denizens of the Abbey itself?
Teaware Gift Sets
This selection of cherry blossom tea sets in various styles sing in spring
Dad’s Silver Service
Our elegant silver-plated tea set, as used in Fortnum’s restaurants, has proved so popular that they have created this smaller, bachelor version of the teapot. Perfect for tea for one or two people, its classic style will be a credit to your table.
Bar & Culinary Gifts
Shinbone Alley created spice and tea blends to be infused into whiskey, making Dad a master mixologist of Manhattans, Whiskey Sours, Old Fashioned, and his own custom cocktails.
Matcha-Pineapple Margarita
In this seductive variation of a classic margarita, the tea powder adds an exotic flavor, rich color, and mysterious opacity to the cocktail. A pinch of dried red pepper flakes makes it more seductive.
Teas for Mom
Each year, there are more teas created with mom in mind, and 2023 is no exception. Each one of these will warm your mother’s heart, as well as her teacup.
Tea Accessories & Hampers
This practical pouch for carrying tea bags slides easily into a pocket, handbag, luggage… Fill it with a few tea bags of your choice and be ready at any moment and wherever you go for an instant tea in your favorite flavor.
Mother’s Day Teapots
Trendsetters rely on a stylish home with the Wine- red deer. The elegant Blackberry style perfectly combines modernity and tradition with the classic theme, thus having its finger on the pulse of time. Each piece is made by hand and is a real unicum.
Silver Service
Because mothers are icons, they deserve iconic teaware. This fine vintage George VI sterling silver four-piece tea and coffee service consists of a coffee jug, teapot, cream jug, and sugar bowl. A tea set for legendary moments.
Review: Teasy
Fine teas reveal their elegance in layers. Rock oolongs, for example, respond to short, controlled steeps in small volumes of water. Teasy offers that level of control with greater convenience and a larger volume than a gaiwan.
Tea Sets for Mom
Gift sets make any tea occasion special. Matching teapot, cups, saucers, creamer, sugar bowl, and even a flower vase make this rose adorned teatime set from Théières du monde the ultimate for entertaining.
Teaware Mom Will Love
Teaware from matcha bowls to sturdy mugs and delicate China porcelain will find its place in the kitchen, home office, and on the dining table. Convenience, color, and style make this category a favorite for gifting.
Tea Jewelry
Jewelry made from vintage silver teaspoons has classic appeal and style. If Mom is a tea-lover, why not gift her one of these lovely wearables this year? Who knows what teas they formerly stirred or what romances and festivities they witnessed?
No sale in North India while Kochi Sees High Prices
Demand for CTC at the Kochi tea auction was strong this week. Orthodox teas for export to the Middle East and CIS countries also increased. Green teas from the Nilgiris are also commanding higher prices.
Tea Books for Mom
Considered a basic for a tea book library, this gorgeous volume is by the chef-owners of Quebec’s Camellia Sinensis Tea House and covers history, farming techniques, and tea culture, among other subjects. You can buy it directly from the Tea House’s website, which is in French, under “Cadeaux Pour Debutants” (Gifts for Beginners).
South India Sale Continues as North Awaits Production
Sale of tea continues in the south Indian auctions while north India awaits sufficient volumes as early season still underway. The early Darjeeling first flush is quickly being picked up in private sales.
Light Rains Point to Promising First Flush
A weekly report on global tea prices by market that includes data and details on price averages at tea averages, weather conditions during harvest periods, labor availability and other developments influencing prices, and expert views.
Record Green Tea Prices in the Nilgiris as Darjeeling, Assam Begin Harvest Season
A weekly report on global tea prices by market that includes data and details on price averages at tea averages, weather conditions during harvest periods, labor availability and other developments influencing prices, and expert views.
Holiday Tea to Go
Teasy is an innovative infuser designed to bring out the delicate flavours and true taste of your loose-leaf tea. With Teasy you can see the tea as it steeps, and with just a twist of the wrist, you can separate tea from the leaves at just the right moment. Your tea will have its full flavour without being over-steeped.
Teapots
Valentine’s Day is all about revealing one’s feelings, just like tea leaves unfold in a glass teapot. The gentle curves and theatrical style create a remarkable aura around this LOVE STORY teapot; the expertly chiseled spout, the ornately sculpted handle, the unabashedly beautiful, dizzyingly high neck. Numbered edition, as unique as your love.
Earl grey tea cookies
Cookies are both comfort food and an essential household item! Essential because these aromatic discs are the perfect teatime companion. […]
Last-Minute Holiday Gifts
Tea Journey readers span the globe. Half of the magazine’s subscribers reside in Asia and Europe and Africa. That’s why this year’s last-minute gift guide features festive items from India, Europe, and China. These gifts bring to mind holiday celebrations around the world including Diwali (the festival of lights in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Linka), Yawm Ashura in Arabic countries, Hanukkah, and Dongzhi the winter solstice celebrated in China, Korea and Japan.
Inspiring Innovation
Orit Eisenberg is irrefutable proof that it sometimes takes 25 years to become an overnight success. During the recent World Tea Virtual Summit, Eisenberg, a product development specialist and production designer, told her founding story with humor and extraordinary passion. She launched the Mennä ONE in September 2019 after testing 20 prototypes over five years, gradually refining the elusive challenge of controlling steep time on the go.
Reading the Tea Leaves
At first glance, one pile of leaves closely resembles another, especially when dry. But float those same leaves, after steeping, in a shallow white porcelain tray of water and you can quickly tell whether the money you just paid for that special tea was well spent.
The Health & Wellness Issue [250 pages]
Tea is proven to enhance the well-being of those who drink several cups a day. It inspires a process of discovery among imbibers, cultivating a deep appreciation for the growing, crafting, and preparation of great tasting tea. Finding your own favorite tea leads to a daily ritual and, in time, a healthy life-long habit.
Preserving the Life of the Leaves
Tea is a dry food. As such it is susceptible to insect contamination, moisture absorption, and mold. Tea leaves usually won’t spoil like high-moisture food (bread for example) but the flavor diminishes considerably over time.
Chigusa: Ancient Japanese Diaries as an Art of Tea
Particularly fine items used in tea rituals were designated as meibutsu, or revered objects, by the tea men. Chigusa is a 16th Century meibutsu tea jar and one of the most famous of several hundred antique ceramic storages jars still in existence.
Glowing Skin – The Effects of Silver Needle on Skin Health
Several studies reveal that healthy skin begins with the microbes living in your gut. Drinking a flavonoid-rich Silver Needle white tea helps gut microbiota adjust biological activities, improve bioavailability, and produce antioxidants such as flavonols and phenolic metabolites.
Tea Packaging: The Innovation Edge
Packaging is more than how tea is stored for protection, transport, display, and storage. It is a dynamic element in the tea life cycle. It’s part of an innovation complex.
Kettles
Taking the time to bring a kettle to boil before enjoying a cup of tea in the morning is a great way to start your day. Do it in style with this Zen stove kettle by Le Creuset with its oriental-inspired lines and resplendent enamel finish. A perfect utensil to boil water and prepare your favorite beverages.
Arielle’s Favorites
Stocking stuffers like these lovely tea jellies from Paris and shortbread from Scotland are sure to please young and old. Browse this collection of tiny tins, tea utensils, special spoons, and handy gadgets that are perfect for holiday fun.
Summer Fun
While tea brewed hot still cools millions worldwide, it is iced and cold-brewed tea that quenches the thirst of urban dwellers on the go.
Tea Gifts for Children
From nursery rhymes to imaginary parties with dolls and teddy bears, tea time captures children’s imagination like nothing else. Whatever the reason, if a child in your life is fascinated with all things tea, encourage their exploration into this vast and wonderful tradition, and it’s bound to turn into a lifelong passion.
Online Tea Education
Being Tea offers a uniquely human-centered membership program, offering financially accessible, sensory supportive, self-empowered education online for your daily life in tea!
Destinations: Flagstaff House Teaware Museum
The production of Yixing tea ware experienced a revival at the beginning of the 19th century, which emerged in tandem with the change in intellectual tastes. Yixing teapots were cherished by the literati for their elegant designs and simple forms, which matched the aesthetic tastes associated with tea drinking at that time.
Picnic Baskets
During times when the great outdoors is the safest place to play, consider a tea time picnic with a basket filled with summer fare, a thermos of iced tea and as a special treat – macaroons and other afternoon tea dainties.
The Art of Earth and Fire
Jian Zhan teaware inspires poetic praise among its ardent lovers and devotees. Those who gain a genuine appreciation of Jian Zhan teaware find it impossible to shed their fascination with the history, science, art, and economics of these enchanting cups.
Children’s Tea Books
The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don’t expect to see at the door is a big furry, stripy tiger! This inimitable picture book is perfect for reading aloud, or for small children to read to themselves time and again.
Review: Tea Aroma Kit
The Tea Aroma Kit: Mastering Tea’s Language of Smell is an experiential tool consisting of 45 vials supported by a short guidebook and a mapping of the scents in relation to how they are formed in the stages of tea processing.
Gourmet S’mores
These wonderful macarons can be completely made in advance, but for the enjoyment of your guests, we strongly recommend that you have the macaron halves ready to fill and allow each guest the fun of toasting their marshmallows and building their cookies, just like with the classic s’more.
Matcha and White Bean Dip
This white bean dip recipe is breathtakingly quick to make. If you need a quick dish to bring to a barbecue and are tight on time, make this bean dip and serve with purchased pita chips or fresh pita. If you have a little extra time, then these chips are worth the effort.
How Tea Can Improve Your Milk Supply
Many mothers feel they don’t produce enough milk, especially in the earlier days, weeks, or months after giving birth; after all, when you breastfeed, you can’t see exactly how much your baby is eating. What if increasing your milk supply was as easy as brewing a cup of tea?
Marzi’s Summer Gimlet
This wonderful cocktail was created by Marzi Pecen for a Tea Cocktail event that she was leading. She noted that even non-gin drinkers enjoyed it!
Lucy’s Fried Chicken’s “Tea Pie” Recipe
Lucy’s Fried Chicken, a cherished Texas restaurant chain offers a variation on the Southern specialty Chess Pie made with tea. What could be more perfect to serve at any barbecue?
Forest Pick Wild Tea from Manipur
Three sisters from Manipur, India, and their brother launched Forest Pick Wild Tea about two years ago. Together they organized villagers to harvest tall-grown tea trees on a schedule, arriving with portable processing equipment to make artisan oolong, black, green and white teas. “Irrespective of the market size or market opportunity, Forest Pick Wild Tea is not another start-up, but an eco-system we are creating in which all the villagers participating will benefit.” — Julie Gangte