Tea Making Tips (1941)

Posted by admin on May 13, 2012
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Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say ‘orf’ instead of ‘off’. Tea connoisseurs will benefit from the six golden tips for making the perfect cuppa, as well as countless other handy hints (never store your tea next to cheese, for example). There’s an assessment of the pros and cons of various teapots and words of wisdom about the tea bush itself. Slightly grotesque methods for producing tea en masse are demonstrated – it was wartime, after all – and tea had to be produced by the oceanful. As such, there are some top tips for cleaning that hard-to-reach tap in your tea urn. Remember: “a dirty tap means dirty tea”. (Robin Baker) You can watch over 1000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank, London and from October 2008 at the new QUAD centre for art and film in Derby — www.bfi.org.uk www.derbyquad.co.uk
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Obsessives – Tea

Posted by admin on April 7, 2012
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Tea: It’s so much more than a small afternoon pleasure. Connoisseur James Norwood Pratt puts tea in context, as not only “one of the world’s greatest handmade works of art,” but an antiwar palliative. Along the way, he weighs in on Starbucks, tea bags, and water quality. ======================CHOW.com========================= Didn’t think food could draw such enthusiasm? Well, we’ve got plenty more passionate people on the Obsessives show page: www.youtube.com For more recipes, stories and videos, check out www.chow.com CHOW on Twitter: twitter.com CHOW on Facebook: www.facebook.com ========================================================

Latest Coffee News

Posted by admin on March 18, 2012
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Coffee falls on expectations for improving supply
By SANDY SHORE Coffee prices fell Friday on expectations that Brazilian growers will produce a bountiful harvest later this year. Coffee for May delivery fell 2.95 cents to finish at $ 1.8235 per pound. The price has fallen 19.3 percent this year on the …
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Colombia coffee growers urge cenbank restraint
BOGOTA, March 17 (Reuters) – Colombia's coffee growers' federation on Saturday urged the central bank to stop interest rate increases that are spurring currency appreciation and reducing earnings of coffee exporters as they struggle with slumping …
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NY coffee and sugar close down, cocoa moves higher
March 16 (Reuters) – Arabica coffee futures closed lower on Friday, but remained up from a recent 17-month low, while raw sugar also finished lower on harvest pressure in Brazil. US cocoa futures consolidated higher. 2:00 PM SETTLE NET PCT LOW HIGH …
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