Steep It Loose

To celebrate Celestial Seasonings 40th year anniversary, Cindy Sutter, food editor for Daily Camera, wrote a tea-licious article entitled Kitchen teatime: Cooking up some tea-full recipes. She featured my Casanova Sliders, Green Roasted Tea Smoked Salmon, Corn off the Cob Quinoa Salad, Mango Tango Grilled Pineapple & Boulder Blues Muddler. Photo by MARTY CAIVANO Along…

I’m coming up on my 3-year anniversary with Tea Spot as well as my 3-year anniversary/ introduction to loose, whole leaf tea. Before I was introduced to tea in it’s loose, whole leaf form I simply knew of it as the iced beverage with loads of sugar and lemon that my grandmother frequently served at…

The other day my coworker and I were chatting about teapots and how they’re oftentimes a very coveted item. I don’t currently own a teapot (gasp!) and think of them as a pretty utilitarian item. Obviously I was wrong. There is an incredible obsession with teapots, not only buying unique kinds, but designing them as…

One of the easiest ways to get rid of all that tea in your pantry that you promised your husband you’d drink is to use it as a culinary ingredient. Cooking with tea is as old as its history. The ancient Chinese stuffed and steamed fish withoolong leaves; they smoked duck with tea leaves; they…