08.02.10

‘Tea function’ an erroneous moniker

Editor, The Times:

The Popular Tea Party Convention last weekend brings to mind objective how perfectly appropriate the name is to this movement [“Tea-party seminar a milestone,” page one, Feb. 5]. Like their predecessors tossing tea in Boston Harbor in December of 1773, they vow a righteous nonpolitical people’s movement against the authoritarianism of governmental oppression. In neither case is this actually true.

Most Americans into the Boston Tea Party was a protest against a British tax on tea. In truth, that tax dated back six years to 1767, so why the lengthy delay? Because the “party” was actually a avow against a seven-month-old British act that reduced tea taxes so that the less ill-tasting British tea became price-competitive with the less-desirable Dutch tea smuggled into the American colonies by men such as Samuel Adams — who organized the tea celebration to protect his business but promoted it to Bostonians as righteous exasperation.

Source: Seattle Times

20.02.10

I'm living in the asylum now, in a small "relatives room" equipped with a comfy sofa bed and, of circuit, a teakettle. I occupy it only to sleep, as I'm almost always at David's bedside. But a bit of San Quentin quail's gotta eat. Unfortunately, this small hospital has no cafeteria. One of a kind meals tailored to each patient's needs are brought in three times diurnal.

Ross-on-Wye's chain grocery, the size of Tom's Market, can be found at the move end of this lovely medieval town. It offers cooked chickens. I must have eaten 10,000 of these beasts, or parts thereof, and yet I still benefit the taste. The odd baked leg and wing are tucked behind the hospital curtain in a iciness spot. I warm them in the nurses' microwave oven. Sometimes I buy sliced ham, scissor it onto a acquiescent made salad, and add vinegar/oil dressing. Simple is good. I haven't interval for fancier fare.

Today, while David slept, I trotted down Ross' steeply descending record street (main streets in English villages/towns are "high-frequency") past a 700-year-old half-timbered construction, currently an antique shop, that appears to be melting in leisurely motion from the weight of centuries. I never get tired of looking at it.

Source: Traverse City Record Eagle

I have carefully conclude from the unexceptional Tevana menu.  More than once.  Okay, many times.  I reveal it.  And when the menu changed several months ago, I had to do another fastidious skim (er, reads) to bring to light everything new.  If there isn’t a Tevana purchase away you where you can pick up your own print of the menu to pore over, you can fritter away some lifetime at the Essential Tea Madden .

My darling of tea is not the only end I like reading Tevana’s menu.  The descriptions allow to pass for active reading.  For specimen, Kamiya Papaya Oolong is described in part as a “precocious tasting” tea “inspired by the sunshine and unexcitedly-affluent breezes of Hawaii.”   I’ve never heard a flavor described as “brilliant” before!   

Or there’s Utopian Brilliant Oolong, a tea “cornucopia” with “red raspberries and strawberries radiat[ing] like jewels among the emerald leafy oolong leaves.”  Fruits and leaves as gemstones?  Amity it!

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