Tea O'Mania

The healing properties of peppermint

Peppermint tea used to be just one of the many pleasant herbal and fruity teas that fill up my kitchen storage units – until I recently discovered that it also has amazing healing properties!

It all started when I was in hospital recently having my troublesome gall bladder removed. Part of the procedure involves medical staff pumping gas into your chest cavity, inflating it so that the surgeon can see what he or she is doing. A very important part More

Tea and its anagrammatic sibling

TEA the word brings with it the flavour and aroma of something exotic. Starting from the source where tea is born, the gardens of green splendour and spreading to the ultimate packaging into which the dried up leaves are stuffed, everything about its aromatic as well as therapeutic properties have been well documented. There is however one aspect which in all probability has not been touched upon or even if touched not been gripped in its totality.

The word TEA More

Winter Warmers

The nights are starting to draw in and I even noticed some frost on the cars as I walked to walk this morning; all a sure sign that winter is at least approaching fast, if not already here. For me, there’s nothing more soothing after being out in the cold than a big mug of hot tea. At this time of year, you can usually find different blends available; often described as “winter” or “Christmas” teas, simply because of the More

Tea: Saver Of Souls

Tea does not get the credit it deserves! Therefore I have taken it upon myself to start a revolution. At least a revolution in a cup, sitting beside me now, which will form the basis of a bigger revolution once I work out how I am going to do that exactly. But to begin with, at least, I have chosen to start here and to write a small but extensive article on what the world would have been like had More

Tea Is Best

Tea is great, awesome, fantastic, unbelievable. In my opinion, there truly is nothing bad you can say about the stuff; but if you’d have told that to me when I was twelve, I’d have laughed in your face. To me, back then, tea was nothing less than an abomination that the world needed to be rid of as soon as possible. It was despicable, looked like the stuff mum washed up in, and it looked even worse when we went More

If Needs Must

Verbally fighting a waitress – or at least trying to teach them how to make tea properly is not a good idea for several obvious reasons. Reason 1 is that a) she makes tea all day every day and therefore feels that she must be good at it and is very defensive and b) she makes tea so much that she honestly thinks that she must know more than anyone else who is not a waiter or waitress. Reason 2 More

Tea Club

They exist in every city, in the shadows, in the dark unlit corners of car parks where normal people would never dream of walking. They exist in groups who speak to nobody else and only to those who understand how great it is. How precious a thing it should remain. Every Saturday evening they meet, or every Friday, creeping down stairs to duel it out, to do battle with their bags: each person championing a different brand. The first rule More

Tea, Glorious Tea.

In 1773 colonists in Boston boarded 3 ships in the harbour and threw 342 chests of tea into the water to protest against unfair taxes. This was the so called Boston Tea Party which more of less sparked the American Revolution. The Americas are a country more or less defined by rejecting the British tea drinking way of life. To this day are more or less exclusive coffee drinkers… and why on earth would we want to emulate that vulgar More

There will always be tea

There’s nothing like a good cup of tea. It makes the world go round, it really does. There’s just something about cracking into a good cuppa, in almost any situation, that makes you feel immediately comfortable, and right at home. Unless it’s in one of those nasty takeaway cups you get from Starbucks and similar. Somehow that’s just not right.

A cup of tea really needs to be drunk from a solid mug. Even a china cup feels a little More

The Joys Of Sipping Tea

Tea is one beverage that is famous all over the world for its taste and aroma. The English love it and the Asians can kill for it. It is also one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world.

Tea is a refreshing drink and its aroma itself is enough to fill the senses with rejuvenation. You can enjoy a cup of tea on a cold winter night or snuggle up in bed with a warm cup of tea More