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

[sassyelf.livejournal.com]

Wow I love tea! It's all my Grandma's fault. When I went to Germany, my host-mom made fresh peppermint tea every morning for breakfast. I still drink peppermint tea every morning, it's just soo refreshing, no matter how groggy I am. It's also really soothing on those "girly" days. I just got an electric kettle for myself and my grandma. (all the fault of my friend Elli's mom in Britain) It's the best. It takes about 2 min to boil water. Love it, love it.

Thanks sooo much for posting those tea sites! *runs off to play with her tea*