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Valentine’s Day is coming up.  You didn’t forget, did you?  Whether you did or not, we can help.  Flowers and chocolate are unimaginative.  Furthermore, cut flowers look lovely when their first purchase them, but inevitably begin to wilt and fade, until you have a vase full of rotting plant matter, which needs to be somewhat unpleasantly disposed of.  It seems a little unpleasantly symbolic, especially if your relationship is new. My own significant other is allergic to chocolate, which meant getting creative.  Well, not that creative.  Everyone in my own life gets tea as a gift.  But in this particular...

I personally go out of my way to maintain the public persona of death before decaf, but that isn’t entirely honest.  I did a bit of international travel over the holidays, and the jet lag had me looking into teas to help me sleep at reasonable hours.  In the last few weeks, a warm cup of rooibos has become a major staple of my evening routine.  Here’s my guide to our most relaxing teas, and how to make them part of your life: Tea can be important in that it is a ritual.  If you make yourself a cup of...

Books and tea go together like peanut butter and jelly, or warm afternoons and sleeping outside in the grass.  As such, we’ve decided to run a quick series on famous authors, and the types of tea which they likely drank, starting first and foremost with the queen of the books and tea trope- Jane Austen. Austen lived from 1775- 1817, in England.  She was an extremely important figure in 19th century literature, and a contemporary of the Bröntes.  Because of where and when she lived, we can also assume a great deal about what she drank, and how she drank...

Loose tea can be confusing.  There isn’t a neat, pre-packaged paper sack of leaves, which you can simply drop into boiling water, and leave there.  We understand.  Therefore, we’ve gathered a list of every way which we can think of of infusing water with tea.     Tea Balls- Are objectively terrible.  Anyone who has ever owned them is aware of this fact.  Firstly, they are round, which means that filling them involves holding one side of the contraption, while putting tea in it with the other hand.  Then, you inevitably can’t close it while you crush most of the...