Tea?
Sep 30, 2013, 8:25 pm
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Funny you should put it that way. When we have gone to Italy and South America, the spousal unit always gets a bit confused the first couple of days when I ask for his espresso and my "infusione" or "infusion" in the evening. I have to remind him that in most of the world, tea is black, green, or white tea. Herbal infusions are, in fact, not teas at all, but boiled infusions of other types of herbs (sometimes medicinal, sometimes aromatic), and are therefore not referred to as herbal "teas".
Sep 30, 2013, 8:29 pm
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I strongly prefer tea to coffee. Not much of a tea snob, although i do enjoy a good cup of earl grey, green (sencha is good, matcha is great), jasmine, certain chais.
I also enjoy herbal "teas" like mint, ginseng, and solomon's seal. I've taken different types of Asian (mostly Chinese and Korean) herbal remedies, also (which sometimes can taste pretty nasty). Never understood chamomile, though. Yuck.
Tea bags are fine, loose teas preferred, blooming teas for the sheer cool factor
I also enjoy herbal "teas" like mint, ginseng, and solomon's seal. I've taken different types of Asian (mostly Chinese and Korean) herbal remedies, also (which sometimes can taste pretty nasty). Never understood chamomile, though. Yuck.
Tea bags are fine, loose teas preferred, blooming teas for the sheer cool factor
Sep 30, 2013, 10:26 pm
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Time to point out (as ysolde just tried to) that chamomile tea isn't tea.
Here's a thread already made up to discuss your love for infusions and tisanes:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/dinin...d-tisanes.html
Here's a thread already made up to discuss your love for infusions and tisanes:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/dinin...d-tisanes.html
Oct 1, 2013, 4:42 pm
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Time to point out (as ysolde just tried to) that chamomile tea isn't tea.
Here's a thread already made up to discuss your love for infusions and tisanes:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/dinin...d-tisanes.html
Here's a thread already made up to discuss your love for infusions and tisanes:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/dinin...d-tisanes.html
Oct 1, 2013, 6:16 pm
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As a child, I liked Chrysanthemum tea.. my favorite tea back then.^
Oct 3, 2013, 10:02 am
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Oct 3, 2013, 2:08 pm
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Of course there is nothing wrong with that.
Oct 3, 2013, 3:36 pm
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Yes, I'm curious what a specialty tea machine does? Perhaps post a link if you can of a picture, and a list of its function. Inquiring minds would like to know.
Oct 3, 2013, 5:38 pm
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English Breakfast is my favorite. Jasmine and Oolong tied for second. When desperate, Lipton, if steeped for a few seconds in boiling water (I use the microwave) that seems to release a robust floral scent, then I add some cool water to tame some of the heaviness. I never add anything to my tea.
Oct 4, 2013, 12:39 pm
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Never acquired a taste for coffee - to me, it's nasty and bitter - but I love tea.
Oct 4, 2013, 1:40 pm
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I practically need an extra bag for all the tea I bring back. If you looked in my kitchen cabinet, you'd barely know you're in a NYC apartment, it's full of tea from Fortnum and Mason, Harrods and Waitrose.
Never acquired a taste for coffee - to me, it's nasty and bitter - but I love tea.
Never acquired a taste for coffee - to me, it's nasty and bitter - but I love tea.
Staying on topic, my mug at work is so big it needs two Twinnings English Breakfast tea bags to get a strong enough cup of tea. It is my preferred tea however, I am not a tea snob and will drink anything except the cheapest and poorest quality supermarket teabags.