The CHECKLIST is a critically effective tool to keep you, your employees, your customers, and your business location safe. Checklists are a time-honored method for safety in industries as far ranging as aviation for both mechanics and pilots,…

Protect Everyone and Everything with CHECKLISTS

I only knew the daytime Genevieve, the one in loose-fitting pastel housedresses, hair askew, face plain, an old but pretty woman. Her natural platinum blonde hair had faded into a blondish gray, her lashes a pale shadow over her still-vivid blue…

Nocturnal Theater by Diana Rosen

The pure delight of Adagio honeys is their variety and how each has been selected to marry well with particular teas. Choose from these raw honey delights: Classics like Manuka, Tupelo, and Sourwood, and teas formulated to go with herbals and true…

Beginner's Guide to Cooking with Honey

On the lush green slope to the side of Cimetière du Père-Lachaise where the crumbling concrete tombstones of Molière, Colette, Hugo rest, I find myself seriously Lost, wave down a solitary figure to whom I plead, “Sortie, s’il vous plaît, sortie,”…

Paris Stories: One 

She stands nakedpinning her hairthe just-caressed neck(still warm.)His dark eyesbeckon.They begin againa parachute folding into itself. 

Afterward

The history of the teabag dates to the 19th century and to enthusiastic opponents of “the drink” who organized the Temperance Society. Tea was the chosen beverage for their meetings aka “tea parties,” and they were so well attended that hosts were…

The 180+ Year Evolution of the Teabag

Like tea itself, the spices of Indian masala chai were once used in medicine, traditionally the Hindu system based on the idea of balance using diet, herbs, and yogic breathing. Chefs soon found these same spices greatly added to recipes sweet or…

All About Masala Chai: THE SPICED TEA OF INDIA

Originally published in "Taking Time for Tea" published by Storey Books, 2000If I was going to hug you it wouldn't be…

HH/KK

PUBLISHED in TIFERET: Writing &amp; Creative Spirit, Autumn 2016, paperback onlyThis article was in response to the prompt, "Do you think it is possible for people of different faiths to get along? And if so, how? The short answer is yes, they can…

On Interfaith Possibilities

He was storybook tall, dark, handsome. Loved jazz as I do. Took me to smoke-filled rooms where we listened to Joe, Arthur, Ella as we sat side by side; his manner formal, discreet, his clothes impeccable. He introduces me to his friends hosting a…

Man, Woman, Other Man 

is a coal town in southwest Pennsylvania where daily vacuuming and nightly baths …

Where I'm from ...

From the 2017 edition of the Altadena Poetry Review, paperbackIt is always more fun to do what I am told not to do, that's why I'm here in the…

Childhood Adventure

From the 2017 edition, Altadena Poetry Review, paperbackThis is my mother, smiling, even though she hates to have her picture taken. She's …

Snapshot 

Are your customers looking for a new plant-based beverage to try? We have four exciting new flavors of Coffee Leaf Tea. Yup, tea made from the finest Arabica coffee leaves. We pluck ‘em, dry ‘em, and brew ‘em for a great taste sensation. Here’s the…

NEW - COFFEE LEAF ARABICA TEA

Archaeologists have discovered clay jars of honey, and pottery with beeswax still clinging to the surface, in tombs and ancient ruins from at least the end of the stone age of 10,000-8,000 BCE. Paintings in caves in Valencia, Spain that date between…

Beginner's Guide to Honey

 Mrs. Reagan, Who Lived Next Door Mrs. Reagan, (Elizabeth only to childhood friends,) walked ramrod straight even into her nineties as if her Lord and Savior was watching. A believing Methodist doing all the good she could all the times she could,…

 “Mrs. Reagan, Who Lived Next Door”

A full-mouth feel of velvety, complex flavor, Tongmu Jin Jun Mei meets all the criteria for connoisseur-level flavor, intoxicating fragrance, and pure tea-drinking pleasure.
One of China’s spectacular black teas, it has many imitators, however, the…

Tongmu Jin Jun Mei 2020

We operate on the theory that there’s a tea or tea accessory for everyone. As a tea shop owner, you can help customers find their pitch-perfect tea-related gifts this holiday season and we have a few ideas to share to start your promotion motor…

Promotional Ideas for The Holiday Season

The basket of fresh-picked oranges a nest of hardened pockmarked yolks buffed to an acceptable smoothness sits docile, waiting, fragrant with that sweet acid burst that draws you to pull off one stubborn leaf-dotted stem. Its spicy spray tickles your…

Study of an Orange 

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Umami is what the Japanese call a fifth taste after sweet, salty, bitter, and sour. It’s that element that raises a dish from merely delicious to totally spectacular. Food scientists agree that one part of umami is the use of the amino…