Tea for one

[kellinator]

I've always loved tea. I was raised drinking sweet tea pretty much all the time, to the point where when we went to Wisconsin for a trip when I was eight, I was confused when nobody was drinking iced tea. Hot tea was a habit I picked up in high school, now that I think about it, possibly because it seemed like something a mildly snooty Anglophile might do to protest living in small-town Tennessee. My family had the standard Hank Hill reaction: "The girl ain't right."

Lately I've been drinking a lot of tea and trying new teas, which is a lot of fun. I really like toasted mate, green and white teas, and I'm trying to develop a taste for rooibos (South African red tea). I love going to Teavana (http://store.yahoo.com/teavana/) for the Mate Carnival (toasted mate with chocolate notes -- called "the coffee lover's tea") and I'm dying to try some of the more exotic teas from the Republic of Tea (http://www.republicoftea.com/). I drink a lot of their Apple Blossom Green Tea.

Who else likes tea? Recommendations?

Comments

[dark-firefly.livejournal.com]

you have said the magic word! i am a tea-fanatic and i love teavana. i recently started a japanese teacup collection, and they've helped a lot.

i have mate carnival mixed with some chai. it reminds me of pumpkin pie. i'll have to let you know what it is when i'm home and can look.

if you want to try a rooibos, i suggest you try a rooibus oasis, which i got from teavana. it's yummy and kinda citrusy. if i'm not mistakes...it's got jasmine in it as well.

and if you LOVE jasmine like i LOVE jasmine, you'll have jasmine dragon phoenix pearls (the damn most expensive thing they sell) by themselves. oh...so good...and i can steep them about 3 times before i ahve to throw them out, so it's worth it.

hm, i recently got moroccan mint. good stuff, even iced.

let me know if you want any other tea advice! ^__^ you're doing something very good for you. lots of anti-oxidants, especially in green tea.