Thank you, darling Mayumi, for sharing your eloquent suggestions for using spent tea! I hope that all of our readers are saving little piles of dried tea leaves for pillow-making and floor-cleansing. You know I am.
Autumn is sneaking in, between heat waves and fogbursts, along the Pacific Coast of northern California... and our afternoon tea tray changes to reflect the season... A lovely shipment of long-leaf New Vithanakande Estate FOP has arrived, and this tea is quite the thing to drink alongside a selection of what the English call Biscuits and we call Cookies. See the pictures... long, wiry, well-twisted leaves; bright coppery liquor with moderate tannins and medium body. A high-quality tea of excellent value, with lots of that splendid cocoa-like aroma which is a special feature of the best teas from the Ratnapura district of Sri Lanka. Simply delicious, without a hint of pretension... a fitting companion to assertive or buttery cookie flavors. To read more about this tea, please follow the link here.
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This is a great blog. I am going to pass it along to friend of mine who has a tea shop here in Hawaii. Thanks for sharing!
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I started saving leaves from my different kinds of raw, young Pu-erh for a pillow someday. I let them dry on a little strainer before I add them to the bunch. It's a colorful collection of all kinds of different teas. It'll take a while to make a whole pillow but pretty soon I'll switch to almost all raw Pu-erh for my everyday tea. Then I'll have plenty. --Teaternity
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