The able2know Tea Room:: Now Open::

Oooooooh!
The tea Room's open for business again!
Very good to see, tsar.
I shall return!

Ossobuco, I'll happily keep you up to date.
http://www.teaspotnyc.com/

First Look at Bosie Tea Parlor, the City’s Latest Tea-Nerd Haven
http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2011/04/bosie_tea_parlor.html

Here at the Tea Spot once again. Waiting for the 19:30 screening of Armadillo, a Danish documentary on the Afghan war.

Enjoying a pot of almond cookie tea and a slice of green tea cake. :-D

<sniffle, sniffle>

Hello dere! I'm gonna sit over dere in da corner by myseff 'cuz I'm not very good company tonite. I brought my own box a Kleenex wif me. <cough> Doan worry, I'm on antibiotics, I'm not contagious.

You got a good herbal tea for somebuddy wif lotsa head an' chest congestion? I been miserable lately. <blows nose> An', maybe a blanket? I have the chills.

Sorry to hear that Eva. Have a cup of ginger tea for you to sip on.

and a Gingerbread girl cookie to bring up ones spirits...

Strange, Eva.

Snifflles (& much sneezing!) in the southern hemisphere today, too.

I can't recall autumn being a time for hay fever-type allergies , but that's what this feels like.

So another cup of your excellent ginger tea, please, dear tsar.
(Unless you have a better suggestion, of course.)

How about a steeping tea pot of tisane tea? I just found out about this classification of herbal teas yesterday?
http://www.teaspotnyc.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&amp;page=shop.browse&amp;category_id=30&amp;Itemid=53&amp;TreeId=2

Aww, dis place is the best! Dat ginger tea really helped, tsar. I slept 10 straight hours last night...I wuz exhausted.

Wow, I'b neber heard of tisane tea. The describtions soun' like sumthin you'd eat, not drink. I bet dere great. You pick a flavor, ok? Dey all look good to me. <cough, sniffle>

Here's a cup of Turkish apple tisane tea:

Oh, yum! Dat looks delicious! Mind if I just stand over da teapot and breathe da steam for a lil while?

<sniffle, cough, yawn> I tink I'm goin' back ta bed after I drink dis. An' maybe eat anudder gingerbread cookie...or two.

Tank you so much, tsar. Dis really helps...

A new room has been commissioned for our tea salon, (based on one of the period rooms in the new American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Wow! Is that a samovar - for real Russian tea?

Wheeee!!

You all may already know this - but I learned something when I went to the beach last year. There is a lagoon across beachfront drive and when I looked at it - it was creepy - the closer I got the more creeped out I got - it was red.


That's the picture of it.

I learned that the rotting vegetation of the marsh lands caused tannins to seep into the water causing the red color. Same with wine and with tea.

The drawing of moisture by the tannins of course was used to tan hides and such. So cool. Anyway - adding milk to the tea helps keep it from being so dry.

Of course I had heard of tannins in my wine and such...never knew it was in my tea - until I visited the red lagoon. So much fun to learn that...

I love green tea. Really green tea. And I love Earl Grey - very hot.

The weather is getting chilly again here. I think I'm in need of a hot cup of tea!

OH STORMY! I made you a cup of tea last October and I forgot to bring it to you after I made it. I accidentally left it on my window sill and got distracted. I hope you don't mind a 10 month old cup of tea....

Right now I'm forcing to drink this god awful Earl Grey swill. I accidentally picked the EG instead of the English Breakfast tea. Learn my lesson to double check the label each and every morning before tearing open the tea packet. I shall persevere, finish this sinister cup of alleged tea, and carry on!

Earl Grey. Hot. Got it.




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til later

But, but, but,
he's the captain!