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10 Fairy Tale Motifs And Their Synesthetic Flavor Counterparts

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

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

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...

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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...

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Behind the Blend: Modern ProTEAtheus

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

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...

Behind the Blend: Ooh-La-Long

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...