Tea with the Duchess
One of my favorite themes for The Happy News is creating happy moments for yourself so that you will have happiness enough to share with others in your world. Having "Tea" creates moments of happiness for me. Most of you probably know that I'm quite a coffee drinker but I also love the warmth, the glow and the slower pace of a good cup of tea. Since the weather turned cooler I've been enjoying a good pot of tea in the evenings. I've also been kicking around the idea of having a tea party this fall for some of my friends. The first step for me on any new endeavor is a trip to the library. I found some great books on tea and tea parties/lore/ceremonies. (See book list below). From my reading I learned a better way to make the best pot of tea from loose leaf tea and some great recipes for tea sandwiches. I was also pleased to find a new novel by Laura Childs in the Tea Shop Mystery Series called "The Silver Needle Murder". You can learn a lot about tea varieties from these novels. They are set in Charleston, South Carolina and I've enjoyed learning the history of that area, too.
After a Google search for tea shops in the area I found a new one that I want to try "The Old Market Tea House" at 517 S. 13th Street. I've been to The Tea Smith at 78th and Dodge it has a great tea selection, knowledgeable staff and offer classes and other events that cater to tea lovers. The next "Cupping 101" class is Sept 22 at 7 p.m. Call 330-7070
for reservations.
Tea has been taking up space in my mind lately because of a new promotion from Avon. In Campaign 20 we are introducing a line called "Sincerely Sarah". These items will allow you to indulge in a little personal luxury.With the purchase of any "Sincerely Sarah" product you will receive an entry in the "Tea with Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York in NYC. You can see the lovely Sarah in C-20 on pages 95-100. She has a nice website at www:sarahferguson.com and her newest childdren's book is called "Tea for Ruby", very appropriate I thought! I've already received 4 entries so I will hold a drawing for them. Everyone who orders in C-20 is in the drawing.
Book List: Tea with Friends by Elizabeth Knight, The Agony of the Leaves by Helen Gustafson, The Art of Tea and Friendship with Paintings by Sandy Lynam Clough,
The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea by Angela Hynes(great recipes) and The Tealover's Companion: A guide to Teas throughout the World by Jane Pettigrew and Bruce Richardson
Websites: http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/HighTeaHistory.htm
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I've always liked to play in the dirt. I think it was the one thing I consistently got in trouble for when I was a little kid. My mom started out with some funny ideas about raising kids... an me being the firstborn bore the brunt of some of those ideas. One was that kids were supposed to stay clean!! I've had relatives tell me that she would change my clothes 3 or 4 times a day so that I would always be clean! That pretty much ended after I turned 3 and my sister Marsha was born. Living on a farm it was pretty hard to keep anything clean let along moving targets like kids, housepets and husbands!!! But mom spent a lot of time and energy trying to keep everyone and everything clean. I'm not saying this is a bad think I'm just saying that I just can't get that worked up about it! One of my favorite places to play in the dirt was under the lilac and/or mock orange bushes that grew in our yard. These bushes had big overhanging branches and nothing grew under their shade. It was a cool and quiet place to dig in the dirt, fill things with dirt, sift dirt between you toes and make roads and rivers in the dirt. Mom also said that you would "get worms" from playing in the dirt. But I think that's from eating dirt which I don't think I ever did.(at least not on purpose) Well, what do you know.....in the August 14-20, 2008 issue of The Reader I spot a piece in Michael Braunstein's "Bits and Pieces" column called "The Dirt on Happiness". It seems scientists have found a harmless soil bacteria that seems to relieve depression and increases happiness. Apparently there is a mechanism that triggers serotonin, a brain chemical that makes you feel good. Exposure to this bacteria in early childhood is strengthens the immune system and reduces the chances of adult onset asthma and allergies. So this is one time I'm glad I did't listen to my Mother. After my sisters were born, I took them out to my favorite dirt digging places and we all dug around in the dirt! Mom gave up on trying to keep us out of it. I still play in the dirt! Isn't that what gardening is?
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