How have I missed the lovely food/travel blog, The Food Section? Who knows, but I've got it now. Actually I found it via subscribing TastingTable, an adorable quick-read email mini-mag about good food and drink. I am liking it so far. It is bite-size, formatting is no problem in my email, and I'm always glad I took the minute to read the article. Good stuff - here's a link to TastingTable, if you like - they have a No Spamming policy, too.
So The Food Section's article for today is about a cute teapot designed to brew your teabags...and then it has a cunning string holder, and a tilted interior shelf to drain and hold your teabag. You know, when you're done steeping and don't want your tea to get bitter. Because you're a tea freak who loves buying quality tea in teabags. Okay, I'm sure you can get quality tea in teabags, but I've read that teabag-tea is mostly the "shake", the broken-up little leaves and twigs. Whereas if you get the expensive loose tea, you're buying whole leaves and buds - fancier tea, true old-school tea.
Quick, somebody make a teabag joke.
A few days ago, I remembered that I had squirreled away plastic bags of Margaret's Hope 2nd Flush darjeeling whole-leaf tea, and also some fancy estate Assam whole-leaf tea. Though it may be a little old at this point, the tea is holding up well in its low moisture-environment. And it's tasty. I'm glad to finally use the unbleached disposable tea bags that the momster sent me for a holiday past. Yep. I'm rambling. I like tea. And I'm cutting down to one regular cup a day, since - WHO KNEW - even small amounts of caffeine contribute greatly to anxiety!
So now I can drink half my cup in the morning, and half my cup in the afternoon. And then stick to herbal tea, like excellent Yogi Tea (Rooibos) Redbush Chai! Yep.
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