Here is a simple and tasty way to be healthy and decadent during the holiday season: chocolate tea. Other than the sweetener you use, chocolate tea has no calories. Kusmi Tea makes a great chocolate tea.
Kusmi offers chocolate tea is loose form in 3 varieties: chocolate, chocolate mint and chocolate spicy. Kusmi Chocolate Tea is black tea with natural scents of chocolate. All are sold in 4.4 ounce tins.
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Simple and effective. This is one of our favorite tea commercials ever. The voice of the narrator is powerful and the images reinforce what we want in a cup of tea. A great ad.
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Vanilla Tea is becoming more popular. But many tea drinkers are having a hard time finding a quality vanilla tea. Recently, we wrote an article for Ezine Articles telling more about vanilla tea and reviewing some of the leading brands. You can read our article on vanilla tea at the EZine Articles web site here.
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Chamomile Tea (or Camomile if you prefer) is perfect for relaxing. Because it is so popular, almost every tea company makes a chamomile tea. But, before you buy, find a tea company with a reputation for quality. Taylors of Harrogate is a family tea company that has won awards for making the best tea in England.
Taylors Chamomile Tea contains pure chamomile flowers, which are dried quickly after being picked to preserve mild, fresh flavor. Taylors uses organically-grown chamomile for the best purity and flavor. Chamomile is appreciated by many for its comforting, soothing taste and delicate aroma. Since it is naturally caffeine free, it makes the ideal bedtime drink.
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Flavored Rooibos tea is all the rage. As with many items that become suddenly popular, quality starts to fade. But, not with Tega Tea, which offers a range of flavored Rooibos tea. Our favorite is the Rooibos with Passion Fruit.
From high in the pristine Cedarberg mountains of South Africa, Tega brings you premium quality Rooibos tea. Relax and enjoy the Tega Rooibos experience. Nourish your body and soothe your soul. Tega Rooibos teas are certified organic, naturally caffeine free and low in tannin, so they never get bitter. Enjoy the rich smooth taste all day long, either hot or iced, and with lemon or fruit juice.
Recommended brewing time for 1 cup of tea is 2 to3 minutes.
Ingredients in the tea are certified organic Rooibos and natural passion fruit flavor.
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Are some tea drinkers loose tea snobs? To find out, we created this test using Kusmi Tea.
Can you tell the difference between the tea leaves used in a tea bag versus those used in loose tea? Take a look at the below picture. One of the sides is loose tea from a 4.4 ounce tin of Kusmi loose tea. For the other side, we cut open a Kusmi tea bag and poured out the tea leaves.
Can you tell the difference? Take a look at the tea leaves. Many loose tea drinkers say that tea leaves in tea bags are very poor quality. As you can tell by this picture, that is not the case with Kusmi Tea. Although this may not be the case with every tea company, it is with high quality tea companies like Kusmi.
If you wan to know the truth, leave a comment with your answer and we will tell you if you are correct.
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After many requests, Kusmi Detox Tea is now available in the USA. Initially available only as tea bags, it will soon be available as loose tea.
Kusmi Detox tea is a delicious blend of mate, green tea and lemon grass that purifies the body and mind. The tea is made with a blend of mate and green tea flavored with lemon, lemongrass.
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Nothing tea related today. We want to tell you about our 2008 Ford Fusion (thoughts by Paul Gerst, who works at teadog.com and has no connection to Ford). Leave a comment if you have questions or thoughts.
In summary, if you are considering buy a Honda or Toyota and don’t first at look at the Fusion, you will be wasting money. Our Fusion has been a great car. It gets excellent gas mileage, is safe, reliable, well-made and comfortable (plus my iPod works directly through the radio). Our 2 year old son Andrew prefers this car to our other since he can see out of the windows better from his car seat.
And the price was very, very reasonable. Actually, the cost of the 2008 Fusion was less than my wife paid in 2000 for her Honda Accord.
In December 2007, we purchased a 2008 Ford Fusion. My wife had a Honda Accord that we wanted to replace. We wanted a good 4-door family car. I wanted to look at American cars, but my wife wanted a Japanese car and was very resistant to an American car.
But listening to the great NPR show Car Talk one Sturday, she heard read Tom and Ray read a press release and talk briefly about the quality of Ford cars and how they were just as good as Japanese cars. After that, she agreed to look at American made cars.
We looked at a Dodge, Chevy and Ford. The choice was between the Chevy Malibu and Ford Fusion. The Malibu was excellent as well. But the safety features, comfort and price of the Fusion were the deciding factors for my wife.
Our car is gray but here is sample picture of the Fusion. I was cheap and did not spring for the cool Sync feature, which my wife reminds me of regularly. FordVehicles.com is a great site for exploring all about the Fusion.
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We have found Oolong Tea to be provoke passionate responses. Some people love it and some hate it. Oolongs are halfway between black and green teas and are considered some of the most exotic teas in the world. But Oolong Tea may about to hit the big time. The Washington Post newspaper has an article all about Oolong tea.
Getting high quality Oolong tea in tea bags is difficult, which is why we only sell 1 kind. Whittard Oolong Tea is a good Oolong in tea bags.
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Did you know that tea grows in the US. Bigelow Tea operates a tea farm in Charleston, SC. It is a real tea farm that produces tea.
If you know of any other tea grown in the USA, let us know. We would like to work together with any company that grows tea in the USA or manufactures any tea accessory in the USA. The USA Made teapots we sell from Hartstone Pottery have proved popular.
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