Friday's Blog

10 Fairy Tale Motifs And Their Synesthetic Flav...
If you've read many blog posts here, you probably already know my superpower: I taste ideas.While I generally apply these thought-flavors to tea blends representing a specific character, place, or...
10 Fairy Tale Motifs And Their Synesthetic Flav...
If you've read many blog posts here, you probably already know my superpower: I taste ideas.While I generally apply these thought-flavors to tea blends representing a specific character, place, or...

Behind the Blend: Sweetest Dreams
My grandmother was a magical person. It was impossible to feel uncomfortable or unsafe around her and she seemed to know absolutely everything about the natural and spiritual worlds. Every...
Behind the Blend: Sweetest Dreams
My grandmother was a magical person. It was impossible to feel uncomfortable or unsafe around her and she seemed to know absolutely everything about the natural and spiritual worlds. Every...

Behind the Blend: Moon Princess
Simple, but complex. Usagi Tsukino exemplifies the gentle and the fierce, the sharp and the smooth. This collection of ingredients, carefully balanced, lead to an evolving experience that opens different...
Behind the Blend: Moon Princess
Simple, but complex. Usagi Tsukino exemplifies the gentle and the fierce, the sharp and the smooth. This collection of ingredients, carefully balanced, lead to an evolving experience that opens different...

BTB: Modern ProTEAtheus
Friday: When you read the story, did it feel like a horror story to you?Teacup: No, it didn't. So I read the graphic novel because the actual book book was...
BTB: Modern ProTEAtheus
Friday: When you read the story, did it feel like a horror story to you?Teacup: No, it didn't. So I read the graphic novel because the actual book book was...

Behind the Blend: Writer's Fuel
A fire to create, the drive that brings us back to our pens, pads, keyboards, typewriters, voice recorders, etc.? That's all sultry smoke. Pine-smoked Lapsang Souchong black tea (well, technically...
Behind the Blend: Writer's Fuel
A fire to create, the drive that brings us back to our pens, pads, keyboards, typewriters, voice recorders, etc.? That's all sultry smoke. Pine-smoked Lapsang Souchong black tea (well, technically...

BTB: Ooh-La-Long
To really accentuate the nuances and many faces of lust, I opted for two oolongs as the base of this blend. Ti Kwan Yin's floral-milky sweetness balances against Lao Cong's...
BTB: Ooh-La-Long
To really accentuate the nuances and many faces of lust, I opted for two oolongs as the base of this blend. Ti Kwan Yin's floral-milky sweetness balances against Lao Cong's...