Steep It Loose

What a great festival this past weekend!! We’re so fortunate the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival is held locally in Boulder every year. We had a great spot in the shade down by the creek where we set up a booth with lots of free tea to sample and products to sell. People seemed to go…

A substance in Black Tea has been found to mimic type 2 diabetes drugs Precose and Glyset. This interesting information comes from today’s WebMD Health News, and is based on a report by Haixia Chen and colleagues of Tianjin University, China. Their findings, published in the current issue of the Journal of Food Science, state…

For those of us who live in Boulder, having one of our tea houses host the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival seems pretty normal and self evident. For those of you who don’t, I’ll explain why we wouldn’t be surprised about having this event in our hometown. Boulder is known for its outdoorsy, health conscious, green…

Last week in culinary school I learned how make a classic  Tabouli Salad, a great side dish for any occasion. Well this weekend I decided to ‘Teas’ the recipe and add a some protein, making the flavors, aromas and texture party in your mouth. Steeping the Tabouli in Organic MATE LIMON CHAI enhanced the flavor…