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Ice Tea 101

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Make ice tea as nothing complicated; even you make a mistake here and there, you will always get a better ice tea when making it yourself from good loose leaf tea, than if you make it from the powdered stuff from the store, which contain a great deal of added sugar and artificial flavour. It can be a fun parent-child activity that your kids will love to be involved. When gets time of making tea, two components always come together: good quality loose leaf tea and water exempt of chlorine. While choosing good quality loose leaf tea and filtered water, you put all chances for success on your side. All tea types make good ice tea, although subtle white tea taste can be lost while adding fruits, juice and sweetener.  Black tea is always one of the favorites, but green tea and oolong tea make great ice tea as well. Don’t forget the Rooibos and fruit blends, they are great caffeine free alternative for the whole family. Water has major impact on tea taste. If …

Day 3: Zen Moment – Life’s hurly-burly

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Sometimes, life is like a tornado; I get trapped into its hurly-burly and I can’t find out how to escape. The solution came to me lately: LOVE YOURSELF. I understood that it is OK to love myself as much I love others. It is OK to say no, to take time only for myself and to let go on housekeeping, cooking, business … to put me on top priority and just do nice things for myself. Then, I tried to do so. Well, I quickly find out that it is not a piece of cake. How to turn off my brain? How to stop the noise from that little voice who keeps talking to me. ”-Don’t forget this, you must do that, put this on your schedule, plan that…” J. it is not that easy! The solution came by itself while I was brewing tea: FOCUS. When I brew tea, I completely focus on what I do. From choosing the leaves to pouring the tea, each step has something that keeps me focused on what …

Highlight on Japanese Green Tea

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At the beginning of the New Year, and to link with my earlier post, I’d like to highlight Japanese teas. In Japan tea consuming is more than just an everyday thing, it is a life style and a spiritual ideal known as ‘’Cha Do’’ (The Way of Tea). Through their challenging and sophisticated culture, they made a ceremony ritual that considers tea as a unique product and its consumption an Art in itself. Brief historic of Japanese tea industry: For long time the Japanese tea industry was focusing on exportation and the international demand. Japan has export black tea until the 70s. Since then, the tea market has changed, and today most of Japanese rare black tea production remains for national consumption and less than 1% of the total production is to exportation.  Japan is now 7th world wide green tea producer, and its industry is still growing. A large part of its success is due to many tea base by-products such as tooth paste, pharmaceutical products, pasta, ice tea, polyphenol extract and more… It …