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| 2013 Downton Tabby Tea place setting. Photo: Miranda Von Stockhausen. |
Tidbit #1: tickets to the Downton Tabby Tea benefit for 13th Street Cats are selling like hotcakes! Or would that be tea cakes? Or catnip mousies? Anyway, I understand that Sunday, March 30th is sold out, and that there are only 3 or 4 seats left for Saturday, March 29th, so buy yours TODAY before they're all gone! It will be a really fun event with delicious food and tea (if I do say so myself ...).
Tidbit #2: I was contacted a few months ago by Stephen Nelson, who produces and hosts the podcasts at Tea Rage. He wanted to interview me for a podcast, and I thought that would be a great idea. It's always fun to meet other tea people, and the idea of sitting down and geeking out about tea is just so much fun! We finally met and recorded the podcast this afternoon at Satori Tea Bar in San Jose, and after some editing (lots of background noise and, I suspect, rambling on my part) the recording will be up on Tea Rage in the next few months! I'll post the link when it's up, but I encourage you all to pop over and listen. Despite the "rage" in the title, and the fact that Stephen proudly categorizes himself as a "tea snob" he's not snobby or full of rage in real life, and we had a really interesting "chin-wag" over pots of tea. We talked, not only about our mutual love of tea, and the South Bay Ladies' Tea Guild, but also about ideas for future tea research and projects. He might be buying a tea plant in the future and experimenting with growing and processing his own tea, so keep your eyes on this blog and I'll let you know when he does! He also told me about another tea podcast series, called Leaf and Let Die, which I had never heard about; that's more of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 approach to not-so-good teas ... I'll have to give the podcasts a listen and see what it's all about.
