Tea Act

Rose tea cups and silver platters sat across the drawing room with the portrait of Merricat’s mother looking down on them. Mrs. Clarke came over every Friday and sat with the Blackwoods for tea. Their afternoons were spent talking, and enjoying each other's company for it didn’t happen very often. Constance spent hours getting the house ready for Mrs. Clarke to come over. Spending time cooking and cleaning before a formal tea has been very common for almost two-thousand years. Afternoon or low…

Cortadito Last year I took a short vacation to Miami and I discover a new culture in the little havana. While I was walking trough the colorful neighborhood a bold aroma filled my senses and I discover the best coffee I ever tested cortadito. I promptly fell in love with this cuban tasteful coffee. However, when I come back to school I realized that I was expending a lot of money on coffee every morning. I used to expend almost $30 dollars every month on Lattes, so I decided to make my own…

Machu Picchu is a place In the mountains near to the Cuzco city, it is surrounded by a jungle, it is eight thousand feet over sea level. This city was built in the year one thousand four hundred fifty of the Christian era during the reign of the emperor Pachaqutec, it is very difficult to now what was the purpose of this city but many studious believe that its main purpose was mainly to be a religious and military fortress and it seems to be a refuge to the Inca empire when enemies attack. The…

Honest Tea was founded in 1998 by Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff. Their main goal was to bring beverages that were organic and not heavily sweetened to the market. In order to make this idea work both Goldman and Nalebuff raised $500,000 to start the company up. The start-up was a success getting their first bulk order for Honest Tea from Fresh Fields (a grocery store acquired by Whole Foods). Eight years into the market Honest Tea was making $13.5 million in revenue and was selling around 1.5…

One fine day not too long ago, there I was, inside Verts Neighborhood Dispensary. On the ‘medical needs’ side of the room. Being waited on by a highly trained and personable budtender. When out the corner of my right eye, I catch a glimpse of a white bag mixed in with a rather nice selection of edibles. Some of these I knew because I recently did write-ups about them. Some I didn’t. So I inquired. Being handed the brilliant white (childproof) package, I read the front label. The name of the…

Essay 3 There is in no way any doubt that coffee can affect one's health, but the question still remains. Is coffee more beneficial towards your health or is coffee more of a hazard to your body? Well despite the odds stating that drinking more coffee can harm the dental parts of your body, there is sufficient research that coffee can be more beneficial to your body than harmful. In fact, research suggest that coffee is a clear risk reducer in both liver cancer and type II diabetes. Aside from…

said the landlady. “What would that be?” the young man questioned “Oh, I would want to bore you with the details,” the landlady told him, “I will let you settle in if you need anything please do let me know, I will be in the kitchen making some tea.” “Okay,” the young man said. As the old landlady walked down the stair he watched her, waiting for her to leave the room. As soon as he was sure she was gone he quietly went up into the next floor. Sure it was not for him to see but why was she…

Berries are popular for their anti-aging properties as they contain flavonoids. Flavonoids are potent antioxidants that help to protect the body from free radicals and aging. The great thing about berries is that there are lots of different ways to consume them, combine them with your cereal or yogurt, freeze them and blend them into tasty smoothies. You can also eat them dry or fresh! Berries are fairly inexpensive. Consider getting them in bulk and freezing them if necessary. Studies reveal…

apartment for about two weeks. Everything is going well; sure I’ve missed class a couple of times and been late to work once or twice, but everyone has those months. I start each morning the same, wake up, make the bed, have a cup of tea. As I go to get my mug for tea out I feel a tickle on my foot. “Oh my god, that’s a cockroach. There are cockroaches in my apartment.” There is no adult I can call to take care of this for me, I’m an adult now so I have to take care of this myself. I call my…

The journal article “Coffee, tea and caffeine intake and the risk of severe depression in middle-aged Finnish men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study”, had to deal with the correlation between coffee, tea, and caffeine consumption and depression. It was a population-based cohort study, which means that it focused on a section of a population for an amount of time. The study was conducted using 2232 middle-aged men, most of them being 42, 48, 54, and 60 years old, who lived in…