I’ve talked about cooking with tea here before. This time we have a post that addresses the different teas and what food you might drink one with. It’s much like with wine. A certain type of wine seems to go with a certain type of food.
Our source, which is a tea blog on blogger.com, discusses this topic in an introductory post to matching foods and teas. She mentions drinking a green or white tea with pastries among other pairings. You just might find the post enlightening and help you re-think what your tea beverage will be for each meal.
Filed under Tea by on Sep 2nd, 2008. 
Well, it’s available if you live on the East coast on in the southeast part of the U.S. Otherwise, like me, you will need to order it through Amazon. Just look for Dilmah Teas
This tea is grown, handpicked, cured and packaged by a family company called Dilmah Teas. It is not blended like so many teas but is a single origin Ceylon tea. You will know that all the tea within these boxes come from only Dilmah Tea owned plantations.
They currently have three brands:
Dilmah Gourmet – such as Earl Grey, English Breakfast and Ceylon Supreme,
Dilmah Single Estate – such as Lover’s Leap Estate, Somerset Estate, and Nilagama Estate,
Dilmah Green Tea – such as Ceylon Green Tea with Real Cinnamon, Moroccan Mint, and Natural Lemongrass.
Our source today says these teas are packaged at the source within days of leaving the field. That way it’s not sitting around waiting to shipped wherever to be blended with teas from elsewhere. Dilmah Tea does NOT employ the CTC technique.
Filed under Tea by on Sep 9th, 2008.
I ran across a post on tea on what seems to be some type of geography blog. They have certainly been all over the world. At least some of the contributors have been able to journey to some interesting locations.
This particluar post was about a visit to a Long Jing tea plantation outside of Hangzhou in the Dragon Well region of China. It’s about 100 miles soutwest of Shanghai.
The post relates a legend about how the area got its name of Long Jing or Dragon Well. The author goes on to relate a little about emperor tea from the area and a visit to one of the working plantations as part of her tour.
They were shown how the freshly picked tea is “baked”, her words, in basins in a manner that has not changed for centuries, though the pots in the picture definitely show signs of modernization. They have been electrified. But there are a few lovely pictures of the plantation included in the post.
Perhaps the most interesting thing, beyond the pictures, was the tea ceremony education she relates that the visitors received and an unreal demonstration of the detoxifying properties of green tea. You really need to read that. It has to do with white rice in a cup with the cup representing our stomachs and the rice representing the food we eat. Iodine was added to represent the toxins and impurities we ingest daily. You really need to read this for yourself.
The tourists were afforded the opportunity to purchase the tea at the plantation as well as tea sets, local plum wine, and candies and snacks made from tea.
Filed under Health Benefits of Tea, Tea by on Sep 23rd, 2008.