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Little Girls and Tea Parties

Where does it come from, the compelling urge for young girls to act as Victorian social hosts?  Child Harbat hasn’t seen Downtown Abbey yet she adores a china tea set she got for Christmas and has hosted several soirees at

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Chai: Solved

The great chai mystery has been cracked.  My previous attempts at making strong chai in the office, here and here, were foiled by physics (shakes fist at universe) and operator error (shakes fist at self).  As is so often the

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Chai Update 2

Chalk one up for the marvel of the market system.  Five minutes after my last post I’d found a mug that looked like it would fit the bill.  One hour later I walked to a Starbucks two blocks from my

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Chai Update

I’m about halfway there.  I put together a new spice mixture, packed it in a baby food jar for work, and brought in the blank teabags to make myself some chai.  I funneled in a teaspoon and a half of

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Making Your Own Chai

What is it about spices that keeps me intrigued?  It brings out the kid in me, opening up little jars with exotic powders, shaking in a bit here, a sprinkle there.  Playing with spices is getting to experiment with a

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I Feel C A L M E R

Celestial Seasonings Tension Tamer tea is my version of the Pirin tablet.  Maybe it doesn’t actually do anything but I can tell you the placebo effect works. P.S. Since I stopped tweeting like a little bird years ago, I’m going

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