Where it all started

Way back when, in college, I first really started getting serious about tea.  I really started drinking it in college and at my first “real” job.  I remember my coworkers teasing me, “Are you going to have some tea with your sugar?” when I added 3 spoonfuls of sugar to my hot tea.  Back then I could afford the calories.  I was drinking Bigelow Cinnamon and Constant Comment (tea bags) at the time.

Even before that, I got my love of tea from my sister.  Her tea was good.  My grandmother’s tea was not.  By the time I came along she had quit using sugar and it was very bitter – which I have since learned happens when you overbrew the tea.  It’s surprising that a lady born and raised in Kentucky couldn’t make tea worth a darn.  So basically, we have my sister to thank.  She was big into natural foods even before it was cool.  She even started a food co-op back in the ’70s.

Anyway, I never learned to enjoy coffee.  To me, it’s the only thing in the world that smells good and tastes bad.  So, tea it is!