Quote of the Day- "Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea".

Picture- Teas on sale in Istanbul, (c) Jo Rooke, 2010-2011, all rights reserved. Reproduced here with permission.

Hi. Welcome to The Tea Fiend. I haven't written any tea reviews for a few days, but I'm working on one. In the meantime, please take a look around while you are here- if you scroll down, there's a review of black teas and another of warming winter teas and gifts.

Quote of the day today is-

"Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea." -Author Unknown

Many thanks to the tea garden for today's quote and Jo Rooke for the picture.

Quote of the Day- Bernard-Paul Heroux - tea solves all your problems...

Picture by David Monniaux

"There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea." -Bernard-Paul Heroux


Picture= a tea pot in a Taiwanese tea house photographed by David Monniaux (image licence details here)

Quote of the Day- Chinese sage Lu Yu on the perfect cup of tea

"The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain." - Lu Yu (d. 804), Chinese sage, hermit

Picture (above)- Tea leaves steeping in an uncovered Zhong (chinese tea cup)- by Wikimol (image licence and details here)