Tabitha: Artist, tea lover and gnome mother.
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Sunday, 7 May 2017
People we meet - Tabitha
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Sunday, 24 July 2016
British Bikkies
Jammy Dodgers
Chocolate filled Bourbon biscuits
Iced Gems
British biscuits remembered from childhood. In the summers we would often swim at my brother's elementary school, the Dragon. On the cycle ride back home, ravenous with hunger, we would stop off at a local supermarket and buy bags of iced gems. A bag full of delightful little biscuits, each with a crisp biscuit base, about the size of a euro coin that was topped off with hard, brightly coloured, piped icing shape.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2016
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Friday, 15 August 2014
Pouring Text
Tea by Alison Day
Theme: Text & Type - Prompt 9: #Tea:
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
Almost Alice
Thursday, 3 June 2010
All Hail the Teabag!
Illustration: John Tenniel
After the melodrama of the alarm clock first thing
in the morning, I am someone who prefers the more gentle approach of a cup of
tea instead of the instant ‘bang on the head,’ provided by a cup of coffee.
Reaching for the kettle and the teabags is a daily ritual and makes juggling a
tin of cat food (for the screeching cat), and the contents of the fridge for
the wherewithal for my son’s packed lunch, a little more bearable with half
opened eyes.
It seems that teabags have been around since 1904,
when Thomas Sullivan a tea and coffee merchant from New York, decided to send
his customers samples of tea in hand-sewn silk muslin bags. This was instead of
sending the somewhat bulky and expensive to send tins, that were normally used
by merchants of the time. It is said that his customers being totally confused
by the new packaging threw the tea in hot water, bag and all. This
revolutionized making a cuppa and as a result the ‘teabag’ was born. Being an instant
hit this meant that after this Thomas Sullivan’s customers wouldn’t settle for
anything else, so he continued to ship tea in his new creation the ‘teabag’.
What could be better? A gloriously quick solution,
coupled with a simple design filled with your favourite brand or flavour on the
end of a piece of string! Also, adieu to the sewage found at the bottom of a
teapot.
But sad to say generic paper teabags, whether they
are oblong, round or square do not contain the best grade of tea possible. Due
to the limitations of size, teabags have for years contained only the inferior
dust remnants found at the bottom of the tea barrels. So, the brown beverage in
your cup although drinkable, is not the best quality that can be brewed from a tea leaf. The customer is definitely not getting the ‘full flavour’, as promised
by some bright spark in the marketing department of many a brand.
Enter the pyramid teabag…yes, the Egyptians were
onto a good design. Because of its shape, whole leaf and more exotic mixes of
tea can be used. Made of woven synthetic muslin the process of infusion is
improved resulting in tea with a superior flavour all the while still fitting
perfectly in a cup, and still not creating any problems when it comes to
packaging. These teabags have been around since the 1980’s originating in Japan
and its more modern cousins are even available in a biodegradable jacket.
Esoterically these charming teabags are a pleasure to the eye with the leaves
and blooms on show, and may finally be able to unite the divide between the
teabag in a cup drinker and those who prefer loose tea in a teapot. Both can
enjoy a decent cup of tea.
Sources:
View all issues of Connections HERE (editor, designer, illustrator: 2006-2013)
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