Afternoon Tea Cooking Class

July 29, 2015 |

My wonderful sister was nice enough to take me to a cooking class taught by CC Fridlin of Cooking with CC.  His classes cover all types of subjects but this one was afternoon tea so I was tickled to go.  He taught this class in his own kitchen so it was easy to see what he…

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Grades of Tea

March 29, 2014 |

Like the wine ratings scale, tea has grade levels.  If you see random letter groupings at the tea shop you know you’ve got a good supplier that understands higher quality teas.  The different tea grades are (from lowest to highest):   Dust:  Break open your average lipton tea bag and you’ll see what this means. Fannings:  Broken leaves. P – Pekoe:  Attributed origin…

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