Tea News

Darjeeling tea and egg rolls appeared side by side Saturday afternoon at the Butte County Historical Society's fourth annual Year of the Dragon Tea.

The Cafe on the Common, at 677 Main St. in Waltham, just across from the Common, has been thriving for seven years -- so it must be doing something right.

Valentine Tea Valentine's Day for many is a day to express extra love for those closest to you in your life.

Jorhat, Feb. 11: The director of Tocklai Experimental Station, the oldest tea research institute in the world, Mridul Hazarika, today called upon the tea industry to take up programmes to conserve biodiversity in the Northeast and to incorporate a few chapters on Assam's natural resources and its preservation in the state's school curricula.

Dan VanVleet makes a pot of tea for a customer at Legends Cafe on South Ninth Street in Lebanon.

Siliguri, Feb 10 : While stressing on tea, tourism and cottage industry, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced several projects for the development of several districts in north Bengal.

If the "mainstream" media tries any harder to get sexual grotesquerie down our throats, it will have to use a ramrod: On a chilly winter afternoon, Andrej Pejic settles into a Manhattan cafe with a cup of Earl Grey tea, sitting gracefully, long legs crossed.

Darjeeling, Feb. 10: The West Bengal Tea Development Corporation has decided to increase the daily wage of labourers in its three gardens in the Darjeeling hills to Rs 90, the standard amount paid by the industry in the region.

Natural materials are making a foray into toys with the launch of a new building block called Earth Blocks , which can be snapped together to create different shapes and structures.

In this week's paper I took a break from gushing about desserts to I write a 1,000-plus-word love letter to oatmeal .

Last August I had a revelatory experience. A good friend, and Starbucks non-enthusiast, had accompanied me to the local 'bucks to pick up a quick drink.

The flavor of love: Seasonal treats for that special someone include the Pastel Selection from Pierre Marcolini , numbered chocolate squares from Meiji's 100% Chocolate Cafe and a colorful Valentine's set from Bella's Cupcakes.

You can prepare this drink in two ways - as a cocktail drink or as a non-alcoholic iced beverage.

Tea can be comforting at any time of year. The popular beverage also has the advantage of being prepared hot or cold to suit your liking.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada announced a recall of more than one million Tassimo Single-Cup Brewers after more than 100 reports of the brewers spraying hot liquid and burning users.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the "T-disc," the plastic disc which holds the coffee or tea, can burst and spray hot liquid, coffee grounds or tea leaves onto a person.

DETAILS: Tassimo Single-Cup Brewers manufactured by BSH Home Appliances Corp., of Irvine, Calif.; sold at department, mass merchandise and home improvement stores nationwide, hotels and food service providers, and online from June 2008 through February 2012.

My fiance is deployed, so this is my first Valentine's day without him. Usually this state of affairs would leave me mascara streaked in front of Titanic with a mammoth box of Cellar Door Chocolates and a box of tissues, but not this Valentine's Day! Hillbilly Tea , one of my favorite local places, is hosting a Valentine's Tea dinner, and I am ... (more)

This is probably the most creative tea-brewing invention to date; the Shark Fin Infuser is a mini shark-shaped strainer in which the avid tea drinker's tea leaves can be placed and set to float about a cup of steaming water.

The old tea chest gets a charming reference in Caribou Tea packaging. Despite the boxes being made of either aluminum or cardboard, they bear the detailed dressing of wooden structures.