John Rice: General Manager This summer I was reading a LOT of discussion about icing loose leaf tea. Many people have trouble keeping the tea clear once it has been iced. The problem can range from simple fogginess to something that is usually described as “milky”. To make matters more frustrating, the issue seems to…
By John Rice, General Manager Hello everyone. Sorry I’ve been so quiet in the blog area lately. I plan to be changing that. I just want to announce that over the last (nearly) two days we have been applying a major upgrade to the online store. This is a significant undertaking and it never goes…
by Lori Way, MS, RD Despite my love of a wide variety of teas, for the last ten years, I had pretty much settled on one tea to drink every morning, Royal Golden Yunnan, which, as some of you surely know, is no longer available. Since I knew this was about to happen, I started…
by John Rice, General Manager One area we have been diving into more at The Tea Table is the craft of blends. While we have always offered our own flavored blends, in the last couple years we have ventured further into unflavored ones. Normally, unflavored blends are commercially developed using teas from dozens or even…
by Lori Way, MS, RD I’m sure you’ve heard that tea bags are made from the sweepings of tea factory floors. Now I’ve always figured that was not true, but at the 2011 Tea Expo, Nigel Melican gave a scientific argument explaining why it can’t possibly be true. Get a load of this: In the…
by Lori Way, MS, RD Ahh, the fiery sting of hot peppers, the refreshing cool of peppermint, the sinus-clearing jolt of horseradish. Without these kinds of sensations, a lot of foods would be pretty dull. For this third part of my posts about tasting, I’d like to focus on mouth-feel, also known as chemesthesis, which…
by Lori Way, MS, RD Can anything be more disappointing than not being able to enjoy your favorite food when you’re clogged up with a cold? In this second part of my series about taste, I’d like to talk about the importance of our sense of smell as it relates to perceiving taste. (Here is…
by Lori Way, MS, RD Have you ever tasted a tea that a friend recommended and absolutely hated it? Or you’re reading tea reviews online and see your favorite tea bashed. You can’t understand how someone could not enjoy your favorite, nor how anyone on earth could like the one you just threw down the…
By John Rice, General Manager In the ten plus years The Tea Table has been in business, tea has been steadily becoming more popular. The positive side is that there are more and more teas available. One of the down sides is that the quality of teas can, in general, steadily decline. While we are…
by Lori Way, MS, RD A good friend recently asked me a question about making iced tea, and it occurred to me that others may have the same question. She usually makes her iced tea with our Cinnamon Orange Spice tea, but the other day made it with Yorkshire Gold. She used the same method…
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