Posted by Raphael, April 21, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Tea time could be changed forever with the self-stirring cup.
A prototype for a teacup called Ceramic for Mix aims to obviate the need for teaspoons. The teacup, by the design firm Anna Gram, stirs the tea with a twirling motion of the wrist. When you take a sip, the ball is trapped in the base of the glass by gravity to prevent accidental ingestion. Says Anna Gram's website: "Function creates a new gestural and aesthetic appeal." [via Neatorama]
Posted by Wan Yan Ling, April 14, 2008 at 10:00 AM
How to Stretch Your Tea, and Eat It, Too
The Grocery Ninja leaves no aisle unexplored, no jar unopened, no produce untasted. Creep along with her below, and read her past market missions here.
I don’t know about you, but filing my taxes has left me feeling kind of like the last prune in the bottom of the box—all dried out with icky crystallized sugar on top. Coincidentally (or perhaps not), rice recipes have been showing up everywhere—probably because everyone’s feeling a bit pinched on the money side of things, and rice is one of the most filling and affordable foods to be had for the money.
I doubt you guys need another recipe on how to cook rice, but how about drinking it? There are rice milks, alcohol, and those incredible sweet rice-based drinks Amazake, Sikhye, and Morro Horchata. But they’re all too involved for me in my ripped-off state. I don’t want to spend too much time at the stove, because that will lead to me angsting about holes in my pockets, stirring spoon in hand. Instead, all I want to do is be able to just add water.
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Don't know anything about the world of tea? Condé Nast Porfolio has a simple gourmet tea guide to give you the basics of tea types, how to drink it, and how to brew it.
Posted by Robyn Lee, February 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM
A caterpillar and his son just want to eat best tea leaves at the top of the plant. Is that too much to ask for?
Yes. But at least they give it a good shot. Watch the drama unfold, after the jump.
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Posted by Gordon Mark, January 7, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Posted by Lia Bulaong, April 13, 2007 at 9:00 AM
Rhizome.org's ArtBase on Tea Blog, an ongoing project by British artist Ellie Harrison: "Every time Ellie has a cup of tea (or a different type of hot drink) she notes down the thought which is most on her mind during the first few sips. These thoughts are then uploaded to the Tea Blog at regular intervals. Tea Blog aims to expand indefinitely over the next few years, developing over-time into a vast database of thoughts – a diary of day-to-day life via the ritual of tea-drinking."
It sounds banal, to be sure, but I was surprised to find myself getting really interested after clicking through a few cups worth of entries—Harrison gives you just a snippet of her life, but it's just enough that your imagination starts piecing together what the whole might be like. (Also: the British really do drink a lot of tea, don't they?)
