(Note: Harumph! Just in time for the holidays I have come down with a horrendous cold and am battling both it and a nasty headache. No tea reviews until I am completely recovered. . .going to focus on other tea-related topics for now.) Like many tea...

I grew up in Park Ridge, a stately, older suburb of Chicago. It is a very pretty and peaceful place, boasting numerous interesting shops, an art deco movie theater, and now, it is very own tea merchant: Tea Lula. Owner Sheila Duda stocks over 100...

(I am breaking my own rule and reviewing a tea while I am sick. I am doing this because this particular tea is one of my favorites to drink while ill, and I thought that my readers might appreciate hearing about it during cold season.) Name: Trader...

As many of my tea buddies know, I've been on a hojicha kick lately. In fact, the last tea I reviewed for this blog was a hojicha: Mighty Leaf Organic Hojicha Green Tea. Partly because I've been in a mildly perverse mood lately, and partly because I...

Add some white tea. Nom, NOm, NOM!