Tea to the Iced Degree (The New York Sun)
In 1992, Miriam Novalle opened the T Salon, a combination retail store, tearoom, and innovative, modern sushi bar that revolutionized the way many New Yorkers thought about tea. It was neither frumpy and cozy nor as formal as a white-gloved hotel tea service. There was room for both a quick casual cup and a proper afternoon tea, replete with tea sandwiches, scones, and clotted cream. Because of ...
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Singapore salon infuses tea with new level of luxury (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Fancy a cuppa? At Singapore's only luxury tea boutique and salon you'll be spoiled for choice, with 600 fragrant blends ranging from classic breakfast pick-me-ups to rare yellow varieties.
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New iced-tea maker is really cool (Akron Beacon Journal)
The Tea-Over-Ice iced-tea maker from Tea Forte seemed a tad gimmicky (we resist appliances that work only with the products a company sells) but this sleek flash-chill brewer earned our respect.
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A people in turmoil as politicians bicker (Warren Advocate)
INSIDE Pakistan's vast white-concrete National Assembly building there is a tatty cafeteria where MPs, party apparatchiks and journalists gather to smoke, drink tea and talk politics.
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Weekend events celebrate Batavia's 175th anniversary (Daily Herald)
From one guy, his wife and their seven children to 26,565 people. In just 175 short years. Batavia begins celebrating the 175th anniversary of its founding this weekend, proud of its status as the first place in Kane County a white man settled down and called home.
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