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...Americans, tea drinking is a quintessentially British pastime. There’s something stuffy about tea and its accouterments—high-backed chairs, Devonshire cream, porcelain saucers and ostentatious pinkie fingers. Owing to this imagined heritage, the advent of chains like Tealuxe and proliferation of trendy herbal tea-shops might seem a flourish of Anglophilia, as if the alterna-caffeine crowd were hankering to sip chamomile with the Queen Mother herself. A new teashop in Cambridge aims to shatter this image with a taste of original tea. Truth is, the British have only taken tea-time for 350 years...

Author: By Mark W. Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nirvana in a Teapot | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...than Tealuxe’s personal pot, but the high quality makes an extra dime worthwhile. If you come with friends, they’ll each have to pay $1.75 to share the pot (a group of three would pay $6.50). Don’t come to Dado expecting herbal teas, however. They’re committed to real tea, and stock only a peppermint herbal to placate thirsty novices. Rounding out the offerings, Dado also serves delicious fruit Lassi ($3.25-4), pastries by acclaimed Boston baker Nick Case ($3-4) and light meals (bagels, sandwiches, maki sushi, soup...

Author: By Mark W. Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nirvana in a Teapot | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...roommate James R. Griswald ’04. Since moving into school this semester, the guys have been growing a variety of vegetables and herbs such as peppermint, chamomile, lavender and both sweet and hot peppers. The main objective, in addition to providing friends with herbal remedies for a cold or the minty part of a mint julep, is to make batch after batch of incredible edible salsa by Super Bowl time. And in order to craft a salsa good enough to go along with the Super Bowl, Master Farmer Whitchurch is also growing the one make-or-break ingredient...

Author: By Angela M. Salvucci, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spice of Life | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...where the assistant director paired up men and women, giving each couple a precise location and activity to perform. Silverman’s task—offering to pour his date a glass of punch—was relatively simple, while Jacobs’ required him to smoke several herbal cigarettes from the prop department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Something To | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...with its homespun, rustic-wood ambiance, mellow jazz sounds and delightfully personalized service. Not to mention a three-course breakfast for $1.50, a selection of 28 reasonably priced coffee drinks from the banana espresso shake to a classic cappuccino (made from local and imported beans), a large range of herbal teas and scrumptious desserts (including a sinfully rich banana, white chocolate and caramel Binoffi Pai). There is even a cozy upstairs loft filled with books. The simple teakwood shophouse looking out on to Chaisongkram Road dispenses cake and cool from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spots | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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