Entries tagged with 'tea'
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Do you ever glance at a tea bag and think, shoot, I wish I could look more like you? Here's your chance. Genius designer Meryl Smith stained a sheer-looking tee with tea leaves and even made a Lipton-reminiscent label with her name on it. Looks a bit heavy with all those leaves hanging at the bottom, but a small price to pay to moonlight as a tea bag. [via Super Punch]...
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Yogi Tea One of the things I was most surprised to discover when I began reading about food and pregnancy was that not all herbal teas and infusions are safe for women who are expecting. Despite the evidence that many herbs have been known for millennia to affect human functioning for better or for worse, I vaguely believed that mind would triumph over matter when it came to anything I consumed in reasonable quantities—especially anything as anodyne as chamomile tea. After all, my coffee habit led me to drink five cups some days and allowed me to go without on others. No hot beverage was my master. Then I decided to give up caffeine for at least the first trimester....
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David Caminer, who helped develop the world's first business computer, passed away two weeks ago at age 92. What in the world does this have to do with food? As an employee of J. Lyons & Company, Caminer helped the famous British tea shop chain computerize its commercial operations for its over 200 teahouses in London with the LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) computer, which helped do things like standardize cost-effective cups of tea. In other words, a tea company developed their own hardware and software in 1951: LEO performed its first calculation on Nov. 17, 1951, running a program to evaluate costs, prices and margins of that week’s baked output. At that moment, Lyons was years ahead of I.B.M. and...
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Or, 'It's My Tea, and It's Now or Never' Photograph from Niemster on Flickr Yes, it's a Jon Bon Jovi teapot. Your Earl Grey never knew it could rock so hard....
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We started the day with a cuppa tea, so now that the day is getting on, why not a refill? This beautiful quartet of tea vignettes by Sandra of the blog Un Tocco di Zenzero comes from the Serious Eats Flickr Photo Group. (Oh, and do yourself a favor—if you haven't yet watched MC Elemental's "Cup of Brown Joy" video, do so now; it's the best thing I've seen in weeks.)...
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Tea time! We can't think of a better way for you to start your week than with this amazingly awesome video from British rapper
MC Elemental. The man loves his tea. Best call-and-response ever: "When I say 'ooh,' you say 'long.'" What are you waiting for? The kettle's whistling!
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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]...
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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...
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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....
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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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