Steep It Loose

Modern Restaurant Management | February 11, 2020  By Maria Uspenski for Modern Restaurant Management    Tea Is a Natural Complement to the Modern Foodie Experience  Restaurants, cafés, and hotels are offering premium tea service – and profiting – in 2020.  Businesses in the restaurant, café and hotel sector are looking to elevate their tea game in 2020. Indeed, trendy third-wave cafés are no longer the only place where consumers can find stout, fermented teas that have been aged in caves or delicate high-quality tea leaves hand-worked to exude a natural fragrance reminiscent of tuberose. The vast variety of premium tea...

The Daily Tea | February 10, 2020  By The Daily Tea Team for The Daily Tea    The Daily Tea recently had the opportunity to chat with Maria Uspenski, founder and CEO of The Tea Spot. The Tea Spot is a leading producer of handcrafted whole leaf teas and creator of Steepware – the housewares tools that make loose tea easy.The company’s vision to modernize the loose leaf tea experience has held steadfast since the for-profit philanthropic company was founded by Uspenski in 2004, a cancer survivor drawn to the health benefits of leaf tea during her recovery.Uspenski is also the...

People with strong, positive social connections enjoy better health and immunity. The many tea-drinking ceremonies and histories from around the world remind us of tea’s important role as a social beverage. One-third of the world’s population enjoy it as a part of their everyday, often as the central beverage to social occasions. Tea is a great way to get social connections going. It encourages what one of our favorite tea muses refers to as "sparkling conversation." Feelings of gratitude are associated with lower stress levels and better health. Tea encourages reflection and reprieve. The amino acid L-Theanine is a powerful...

One cup of tea a day is good, but as our founder advocates in her book Cancer Hates Tea, five cups a day can really make a difference in your state of wellness. Whole leaf tea that you steep fresh has up to twenty times the active ingredients you’d get in a ready-made bottled tea. The more you discover about what makes your taste buds happy, the more enjoyment you’ll take in your daily tea ritual. The versatility of the tea leaf offers almost endless steeping possibilities. Our standard steeping guide is a good starting point, but you should experiment...