I ♥ tea

I love tea.  I mean it, I really do love tea. It has been a lifelong commitment gifted to me by my tea loving mother. I love tea so much that sometimes (and you know which times I mean)  I will think 'I feel like a glass of wine.....no, I think I'll have a cup of tea!'. It's true. 


In the heady days of tea bag love when everyone was throwing out their teapots and jiggling, dangling, and littering the kitchen with the paper and tea version of dead mice, I staunchly held onto my wild tea drinking ways and stuck with the leaves and pot. Fortunately for us die-hards the wheel has turned the proverbial full circle and tea drinkers even have dedicated shops to browse, sample and drool in.




Mostly I love Indian or Sri Lankan black teas, but green tea with mint, and jasmine tea are other enduring faves.  French Earl Grey from Adore Tea at Gold Creek is my latest passion. Thinking about it makes me feel like having a cup. 

Some great tea quotes:

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.  ~T'ien Yiheng

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims   (Ralph, I couldn't agree with you more!)

Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.  ~Author Unknown

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.  ~Sydney Smith   (me too, Sydney, me too)

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.  ~Chinese Proverb

We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
~Rudyard Kipling

 Thank goodness mine doesn't leak Ruddy!

Tea is a cup of life.  ~Author Unknown

I must go and put the kettle on. Happy sipping!