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Tea Chronicles: What are the basic essentials required to start sipping Tea?

Tea Chronicles: What are the basic essentials required to start sipping Tea?

To begin with - an open mind.

If you have been sipping a certain kind of tea which has become a habit and you would like to try some new teas, it is highly crucial you choose the one that suits your mood and then you sip with an open mind welcoming the color, the aroma, taste and texture. 

Remember, water plays a crucial role, a tea that you connect with, a pot or a sauce pan to infuse tea or a mug with an infuser. You are ready to sip your favorite or try a new with just the...


Tea Chronicles: What should the temperature of water be to infuse Tea?

Tea Chronicles: What should the temperature of water be to infuse Tea?

 

Well that's exactly what the tea leaves sang as they swam, dived, felt the happy bubbles of the water little did they realize that many who poured the water into the kettle knew nothing about the fact that, it is the lifeline, a key factor for the leaves to unfurl and release the aroma as well as the flavor. When i indulge in 'me' time and i think of at times sipping Tea in the luxurious hotels, boutique hotels, the so called 'fine'...


Tea Alchemy: Imagine .. Create .. Infuse

Tea Alchemy: Imagine .. Create .. Infuse

To delve into the mysteries of the mind, find an opening. For explorations of Flavors .. let the palate touch, feel, imagine, dream, go into a trance, slowly arise, realize, let your eyes smile and then reach out for more .. 

Many moons ago I asked a dear friend, an accomplished Chef, who lives many nautical miles away, where kangaroo and kookaburra...


Zencha: Know the Source!

Zencha: Know the Source!

'La Source', those are the words i go by and it is my bible for many things in life .. the thought, the belief, the product, the person, the enterprise. It all begins from the Source .. 'Srot' as we say in sanskrit. And it has stayed on with me as Anandini came into this world. If i cannot sip what i serve, how can i make you sip what i craft or create. And that is all there is to say, if you wouldn't let your child have it, then how come you...