Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Sep 16, 2011, 7:12 pm
Despite my love of a wide variety of teas, for the last ten years, I had pretty much settled on one tea to drink every morning, Royal Golden Yunnan, which, as some of you surely know, is no longer available. Since I knew this was about to happen, I started to drink smaller portions, always re-brewin...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Sep 16, 2011, 3:20 pm
by Lori Way, MS, RD Despite my love of a wide variety of teas, for the last ten years, I had pretty much settled on one tea to drink every morning, Royal Golden Yunnan, which, as some of you surely know, is no longer available.  Since I knew this was about to happen, I started to drink smaller por...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Sep 10, 2011, 9:27 am
Assam Mangalam Now on sale! Prices listed are 10% off regular prices! Assam Mangalam tea is made from young small leaves that have the highest concentration of golden tips. The cup color is sparkling copper-red, the flavor complex with good body and malty-fruity flavor with faint spice notes. A to...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Sep 9, 2011, 2:16 pm
By John Rice, General Manager.   Anyone who has read the About The Tea Table page will know that I initially started working here doing photography for magazine ads, then eventually for the first version of the web site.  Commercial Photography is actually what my education is in, so it’s hard...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Sep 3, 2011, 8:51 am
We’re sorry we ran out of Yorkshire Gold, which was on sale last week, but you bought it all! More is on the way, and we’ll put it back on sale next time, so if you missed out, don’t worry! On the Waterfront Now on sale! Prices listed are 10% off regular prices! On The Waterfront Tea is an ...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Aug 27, 2011, 8:06 am
  Cheer-Me-Up Sale Ends Monday! Last chance for great discounts on these products! Below are just a few sale items — Visit our Sale Category to see everything on sale! Savoy Teapots 40% off Finum Hot Glass System with Filter 50% off Somayaki Teapot 50% off Kotobuki Exotica Tea Set 40% off ...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Aug 20, 2011, 7:57 am
  Cheer-Me-Up Sale Continues! More items added! Many of these items are low stock and will be discontinued when sold out, so if you see something you like, be quick! Below are just a few sale items — Visit our Sale Category to see everything on sale! Savoy Teapots 40% off Finum Hot Glass Sys...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Aug 13, 2011, 8:14 am
  Sick of all the doom and gloom in the news? We are too, so we’re offering a little pick-me-up in the form of a blowout sale on some good stuff! 30-50% off of all kinds of accessories and tea ware–even a few teas! Many of these items are low stock and will be discontinued when sold out, so if...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Aug 6, 2011, 9:00 am
  COUPON REMINDER Get 10% off loose tea! Enter code DOGDAYS at checkout. No minimum purchase. Discount good only on loose leaf tea. Expires August 13th. Keemun Three Monkey Now on sale! Prices listed are 10% off regular prices! Keemun Three Monkey Tea has a complex and subtle flavor that is arom...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Aug 5, 2011, 11:27 am
by John Rice, General Manager One area we have been diving into more at The Tea Table is the craft of blends.  While we have always offered our own flavored blends, in the last couple years we have ventured further into unflavored ones.  Normally, unflavored blends are commercially developed usin...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 30, 2011, 9:08 am
  NEW COUPON Get 10% off loose tea! Enter code DOGDAYS at checkout. No minimum purchase. Discount good only on loose leaf tea. Expires August 13th. Earl Grey Now on sale! Prices listed are 10% off regular prices! Earl Grey Tea is the most popular tea blend in the western world. Its distinctive f...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 22, 2011, 8:54 pm
  COUPON REMINDER Get 10% off loose tea! Enter code ICEIT at checkout. No minimum purchase. Discount good only on loose leaf tea. Expires July 30th. Black Currant Now on sale! Prices listed are 10% off regular prices! Black currants are very popular throughout Europe, known for being aromatic i...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 22, 2011, 4:17 pm
by Lori Way, MS, RD I’m sure you’ve heard that tea bags are made from the sweepings of tea factory floors.  Now I’ve always figured that was not true, but at the 2011 Tea Expo, Nigel Melican gave a scientific argument explaining why it can’t possibly be true.  Get a load of this: In the ...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 16, 2011, 8:55 am
NEW COUPON Get 10% off loose tea! Enter code ICEIT at checkout. No minimum purchase. Discount good only on loose leaf tea. Expires July 30th. Mango Mist Now on sale! Prices listed are 10% off regular prices! Mango Mist Tea combines high-grown Ceylon from the Nuwara Eliya, Dimbula, and Uva regions...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 15, 2011, 8:26 pm
by Lori Way, MS, RD Ahh, the fiery sting of hot peppers, the refreshing cool of peppermint, the sinus-clearing jolt of horseradish. Without these kinds of sensations, a lot of foods would be pretty dull.  For this third part of my posts about tasting, I’d like to focus on mouth-feel, also known ...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 7, 2011, 1:12 pm
by Lori Way, MS, RD Can anything be more disappointing than not being able to enjoy your favorite food when you’re clogged up with a cold?  In this second part of my series about taste, I’d like to talk about the importance of our sense of smell as it relates to perceiving taste.  (Here is pa...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 1, 2011, 5:27 pm
by Lori Way, MS, RD Have you ever tasted a tea that a friend recommended and absolutely hated it? Or you’re reading tea reviews online and see your favorite tea bashed. You can’t understand how someone could not enjoy your favorite, nor how anyone on earth could like the one you just threw do...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jun 23, 2011, 3:37 pm
By John Rice, General Manager In the ten plus years The Tea Table has been in business, tea has been steadily becoming more popular. The positive side is that there are more and more teas available. One of the down sides is that the quality of teas can, in general, steadily decline. While we a...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jun 17, 2011, 10:29 pm
by Lori Way, MS, RD A good friend recently asked me a question about making iced tea, and it occurred to me that others may have the same question. She usually makes her iced tea with our Cinnamon Orange Spice tea, but the other day made it with Yorkshire Gold. She used the same method as with Ci...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Nov 19, 2010, 3:31 pm
by Lori Bricker, MS, RD A customer recently asked me this question: “One of my primary intentions in drinking green tea is the healthy benefits of EGCG/catechins. To that end, have the various teas been tested and what green teas that you carry are highest in catechins?” Here is my answer: W...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Oct 19, 2010, 5:38 pm
By Lori Bricker, MS, RD This fall marks the 10th anniversary of The Tea Table, and I find myself reminiscing about our beginnings and the changes we’ve been through. The Tea Table started as a pretty little shop in the historic “Old Town” district of Fort Collins, Colorado.  My mom and a ha...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Sep 30, 2010, 5:51 pm
By Lori Bricker, MS, RD Since the whole thing with Lipton and the FDA, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about tea and health and labeling—more than usual.  In case you missed it, Lipton got in trouble over its talk about antioxidants, among other things (read my post about it).  And now t...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Sep 16, 2010, 5:07 pm
By Lori Bricker, MS, RD In conjunction with my post about the FDA's warnings against the makers of Lipton and Canada Dry Sparkling Green Tea Ginger Ale, I  wanted to provide some further information about how FDA food claims work.  The FDA also has a page the describes all this in more detail, an...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Sep 16, 2010, 5:04 pm
By Lori Bricker, MS, RD In an effort to be helpful, customers and friends sometimes tell us we should use some health factoid about tea in our ads, labels, etc.  We try to explain that we are prevented from doing that by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules. Often, people don’t quite underst...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Aug 31, 2010, 5:32 pm
By Lori Bricker, MS, RD Recent events have reminded me how important tea is to my daily routine and overall well-being.  My brother just moved in with me temporarily while he's in a transitional period.  Having someone new around is not something I get to experience very often.  It's interesting...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Aug 20, 2010, 11:34 am
By Erik Todd, Chemist Tea is a great passion of mine. I prefer it to coffee because of how many flavors and how much life there is to tea. I find that a cup of tea can be either a soothing or exhilarating experience. I have enjoyed trying many different types of tea and noting the subtleties of eac...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 23, 2010, 6:11 pm
By Lori Bricker, MS, RD A flurry of tea articles appeared in the press recently, so I thought I'd give you the highlights: A Cup of Coffee OK During Pregnancy The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has changed their recommendation regarding caffeine consumption during pregnancy....
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jul 15, 2010, 5:24 pm
By John Rice, General Manager I'm always surprised that people who insist on the high quality of loose leaf tea when they intend to drink it hot, assume they have to use bagged tea when they will be drinking it iced. The fact is, using loose leaf tea for iced tea is incredibly simple and fast, and...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Jun 8, 2010, 5:57 pm
By Lori Bricker, MS, RD Someone I follow on Twitter asked whether having afternoon tea with a sweet treat would harm her attempts at weight loss.  She referenced an article called, Tea Time Calls For Sweet Treat, by Ginna Parsons, who mentions a book she read whose author says she finds that h...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - May 27, 2010, 2:37 pm
Just put 21 Bee House teapots and tea cups on sale, 20% off!  Limited to available stock only.
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - May 24, 2010, 4:13 pm
By Lori Bricker, MS, RD As a tea shop owner, one of my worst fears is that customers might inadvertently ruin their tea.  This is especially easy for the novice who might not yet know the best practices.  Here's a review of the most important things to do for a great tasting cup! ...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - May 21, 2010, 10:13 am
Frequently we find well-written articles explaining some new research about tea.  We usually add them to the Links section of the blog (lower right), but the articles are hard to find there, so we will start posting links to them here so they are more obvious.  Here are the latest: Green ...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - May 13, 2010, 11:48 am
Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry for our contest!  We have decided we like “A Little Tease” — thank you, Carol, and congratulations!  You have won a quarterly Tea of the Month Club!  (I’ll contact you for details.)
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Apr 27, 2010, 6:04 pm
With our current newsletter, we’re starting a new limited-time offer tea special — here’s how it works:   Every two weeks, when we put out a newsletter, we will feature a brand new tea, of which we will have a finite supply.  When it is gone, it is gone for good, and we will off...
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Lori Bricker posted an article on Tea and Health Blog by The Tea Table - Mar 2, 2010, 1:02 pm
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