We just read an article that Oprah is “tea-ming” up with Starbucks and Teavana for a super star tea blend to be sold in their stores. Here is the link to the USA Today article; check it out: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/03/19/starbucks-oprah-winfrey-teavana-oprah-chai-tea/6610587/ CLICK HERE to search and shop for your favorite teas at Sereni-tea. Let us know in
Here are some key facts on the natural sweetener Stevia… Stevia(Stevia rebaudiana) is an herb in the sunflower family, and can be affectionately referred to as “sweet leaf” or “sugar leaf.”. Extracts from the stevia plant are known to be incredibly sweet; in fact it’s about 300x the sweetness of sugar. So what makes
What is Yerba Mate? Information taken from www.yerbamate.com Yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis) is a South American, subtropical, evergreen species of the holly family, growing as a shrub or a small tree in Argentina, southern Chile, and eastern Paraguay, western Uruguay, and western Brazil. The infusion called maté is prepared by steeping dry leaves in hot,
We stumbled upon this recipe for Dark Chocolate Earl Grey Mousse (all of our favorite things) online the other day, it sounds delicious, and we cannot wait to try it out! Feel free to try other teas in this mousse recipe, like: Taj Mahal, Lavender Black, or even Maple Walnut Rooibos! Let us know your
Chocolate Tea Truffles (Yields 25 to 30 pieces) Recipe: 10 oz. 60% cocoa mini chocolate chips 2/3 cup heavy cream 2 tsp. Earl Grey Tea – bring tea leaves and cream to a boil in heavy sauce pan, strain into bowl, then stir the chocolate chips into the cream until dissolved Cool for 2
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and we have just set up our center table in the shop to spur some ideas for your loved ones this holiday. Check it out! Winter Sampler: Chocolate-Cream-Truffle Rooibos Tea Taj Mahal Flavored Black Tea Old Love Fruit Blend Stimulating Wellness Blend Glass Teapots
After a season of all things rich, buttery, and sweet it might appear to be time to give the desserts a rest… or not. The growing popularity of tea has yielded a new category: “dessert teas”: teas developed, marketed, and sold to deliver dessert in a cup. The term “dessert tea” is generally applied to
Turkey comes in first place when it comes to how much tea each person drinks a year! This week we got an email new update from Adagio letting us know that Turkey now tops the charts as the most tea consumed in pounds per person per year; they even provided a link to the Quartz
It would be hard to avoid the message that everyone should be drinking more water for hydration- eight 8-ounce glasses each day. Right? Not necessarily. The concept of “8 by 8” became ingrained in society for the body’s hydration, as did the belief that only water would do. Common wisdom was that tea would make
A healthier option for kids…. Generations of children in England grew up drinking tea as part of their daily diet. Yet over the past sixty years, the number of children consuming tea has dropped from 55% to a number too small to even be recorded by the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, according to the
