I love quality tea. If you love tea, be sure to check out the great tea selection at In Pursuit of Tea. This stuff is very high quality full leaf tea (no tea dust/fannings here). Their white tea selection is fantastic — especially the Yinzhen Silver Needle. A great way to taste a few of their best whites and greens is to pick up a white tea sampler or a green tea sampler. If you’re not into tea at all, but are curious, their finest tea sampler (a sample of white, green, oolong, and black) is a great place to start.
When I lived in Vermont and friends of mine from England came to visit, they brought their own tea with them. They'd heard (accurately) that the tea on offer in most American households consists of 10 boxes of assorted herbal teas and one box of black tea that smells of cobwebs.
While I'm into the various green teas (sencha, hojicha, kukicha, etc.) and Oolongs, my favorite is good old Barry's Green Label, from Ireland. Strong stuff, excellent with rashers. I can't find Green Label in the U.S., only the Gold, although I guess both can be ordered online. But Barry's doesn't seem to be available in Canada, where I live now.
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I've got to back up cheese-eating heretical witch. Steep is phe.nom.e.nal. steep.com for the lazy.
Yeah, Steep is really good, no doubt, but the stuff at In Pursuit of Tea is way better.
I also find the steep.com site incredibly uninformative...it looks like it's more about the company, its owners, and its self-consciously slick design than the product. I wouldn't be inclined to buy from this site: there's no product page where you can peruse and learn about their offerings. There's a link to "order online," but one would be reluctant to click on that without knowing sometihng about the products that the company is selling.
Too cool for its own good, I'd say; I'm not impressed. The In Pursuit of Tea site is much more inviting to the customer because the focus is on the product and the design doesn't get in the way.
Ashworth Tea is pretty good. Our British designer introduced me to that, and also one of the best ways to brew tea (and coffee, for that matter), using a syphon (aka vacuum pot)
It is worth the effort to check out the "flowering"green tea. i stumbled upon it at an after hours place in the nyc fashion district and haven't seen it since. i have spent hours harrassing the local (cincinnati) ethnic groceries and was only met with puzzled faces. but whadda you know, there it is. in pursuit of tea rules.
I never understood that flowering thing. You just reuse it a bunch of times?
Tea sucks.
The way i saw it in use did not lend to re-use. it was just neat watching the rolled whole leaves expand as they are rehydrated. tied together in the center, that produces the flowering effect.
You like tea? There is a nice tea swap going on, maybe you'd like to join it. Newcomers are welcome, we are now at the 2nd round already ...
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