Steep It Loose — LIFESTYLE

“Simply Mahvelous Dahling” think…. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It’s what I think of when I talk about Jasmine Pearls. I’ve learned bits and pieces about this coveted high quality, incredibly expensive tea and I did some reasearch wanting to know more. I’m sure, like the processing of all teas, there are slight variations in how jasmine…

I’m intrigued… as a huge fan of modern architecture and tea. And as an admittedly biased Japanophile, with a movie collection of anime (favorites being Cowboy Bebop, all the Hayao Miyazaki films with Princess Mononoke at the top, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, and classics like Grave of the Fireflies and Akira), lots of…

The title lends itself to confusion…but take a deep breath and you’ll see how it all fits! The other day when I was writing my last blog, I was thinking about Earl Grey and it led me to want to know more about how it got its name and unique flavoring. I vaguely knew that it was named after an Earl of Grey from “way back when”, but being a history major that information didn’t satisfy me.

I’m a true southern boy at heart. And I often laugh about the fact that before being properly introduced to tea by my colleagues at Tea Spot, the only thing that I knew about it was the cold and sweetened variety that’s typically served with lemon throughout the South. In fact some of my earliest…