Tea 4 Free News > Teazine Issue # 20 - November, 2004

Inside Issue #20:

1. Introduction
2. Tea4Free Winners
3. Holiday Tea Gifts
4. Tea Ice
5. This Month's Featured Teas
6. New Tea Products for Christmas
7. Tea Recipe
8. Health News
9. TEA-mates
10. Once Upon A Tea Time
11. Next Issue
12. Credits

Congratulations to our lucky winner: John K. of Clifton, NJ.

• Raphael and Joann Glinbizzi, of www.specialtyteasunlimited.com, presented the tea4free prize to our lucky winner, John K. of Clifton, NJ.

To date, nearly $7848.00 worth of FREE gourmet teas beautifully packaged have been given away to tea lovers throughout North America. That is enough tea to make nearly 76,000 cups of free tea. WOW!
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3. Holiday Tea Gifts
Consider the perfect gift for your tea lover this Christmas. Some good picks are listed below:

Deca Tea This is the perfect tea display presentation! Re-use the box to store jewlery and other dainty items. Majestic brass-inlaid hardwood houses 30 grams each of delicious Darjeeling, Assam, Nilgiri, Green Tea, Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Masala, Cinnamon, Ginger, and Mint Tea. (300 grams/10 ounces)
Elegant Three A beautiful tea collection for the tea connoisseur! Inlaid brass-accented rosewood nestle 50 grams/1.75 ounces of the three classic teas: Royal Milk Tea, Assam Summer Tips and Earl Grey, wrapped in brilliantly colored silk. (150 grams/5.2 ounces)

If you would like to customize your gift idea, consider pairing up a few of your picks. For example, a few popular items make nice gifts are Papier Mache Cylinder, Gourmet Tea Bag Sample Pack, and Masala Tea. Pick some favourites and display them in a nicely arranged gift basket. Creating gift baskets is a fun and easy way to make your gift unique. Some distributors may offer this gift service. Call your nearest distributor to find out!

Here is an example of what a customized gift basket will look like.

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4. Tea Ice
An article by Donna Deane from the Los Angeles Times, in the Sept 22, 2004 issue comments on a new and unique idea for an alternate way of serving tea. Since we already enjoy the popular beverage called Iced Tea, why not put it through an icecream maker and make a “sorbet”or call it “tea ice”?

The best way to make this new treat is to brew your favourite quality loose leaf tea and sweeten it with sugar or honey and maybe a bit of fresh lemon juice to taste. They suggest that you can spin it through an icecream maker or freeze it, then slush it up after.

Tea ices may be served immediately or made ahead of time and kept in the freezer. If you do this, remove the ice from the freezer about 30 minutes before serving. Have it sit at room temperature until it melts and softens enough to fluff with a fork, or use a blender or food processor to quickly break it up into smaller crystals. The tea flavour is actually supposed to hold, unlike other flavours that get lost when frozen.

Good flavours to go with are Earl Grey tea, Black Currant Tea, Mint Tea, Lemon Tea, or any other aromatic tea you feel like treating yourself to.

Garnish your treat with crushed up tea leaves, mint leaves, dried edible flowers, cinnamon, or other fruits and spices that will give you that additional touch! Mmmm, enjoy!

Read further below to learn how to make Citrus Tea Ice.
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5. This Month’s Featured Teas

Mint Teas Mint Tea bags A blend of freshly dried Mint leaves and Darjeeling tea yields a highly aromatic tea. (25 Individually Wrapped Tea Bags)

Loose Leaf Mint Tea - (with Real Mint Leaves) A blend of freshly dried mint leaves and Darjeeling tea yielding a highly aromatic tea. It is a very refreshing beverage that can be served cold with a small quantity of sweetener. It also aids in digestion and reduces flatulence very effectively. Ingredients: Darjeeling tea, Mint leaves. This mint tea (with real mint leaves) comes in 50g silk pouchs, 100g white metal tins and 1000g bulk. To learn more about other teas or order any of these teas, please click here to find your nearest distributor.

TEA AND CELL REPAIR
BBC News reports that experts believe that antioxidants in tea help to repair cells in the body which have been damaged by sunlight, chemicals and stress. If left untreated, damaged cells can lead to cancer and heart disease as well as a host of many other conditions.

TEA AND YOUR MEMORY
According to an article in ediets.com, research has shown that drinking a cup of green or black tea may help you improve your memory. Drinking tea assist in raising chemical levels in the brain, improves communication among the various neurotransmitters (the brain’s messenger system), which in turn improves general memory
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9. TEA-mates: Members of the Tea Connexions Buying Group
Tea Connexions is dedicated to providing the highest quality gourmet teas. Packaged beautifully, they make an ideal gift for tea lovers, health enthusiasts, and connoisseurs of fine art. Our mission is to offer you beautifully packaged gourmet teas distributed by an elite group of independent distributors that offer you superior service and exceptional value. Your satisfaction is assured; all of our products carry a 100% money back guarantee.

More than 100 distributors look forward to serving your tea and gift giving needs. For an updated list, click here. If a distributor is not in your immediate area, please choose the closest distributor. Please note, this list represents distributors whose online stores are live and active; missing are distributors whose stores are still under construction. To choose your nearest distributor, using a clickable image map, click here.
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10. Once Upon a Tea Time . . . Submit Your Fondest Tea Memory to Win Free Tea
Whether it's childhood memories of granny's kitchen, mom's healing hands or toasts to success, each month Tea 4 Free News - Teazine features favourite tea stories. We would love to hear yours. If we choose your story, we will send you a FREE carton of Darjeeling tea bags.

This featured Tea Story is from Kendra Griffith of Belize City, Belize:

I started drinking tea when I was a little girl living with my grandma. She used to make it from black tea leaves in this iron pot with cinnamon sticks and then sweeten it with lots of milk and sugar, insisting that you should have something hot in your stomach first thing in the morning.

I am now 23 years old and still a tea drinker, although I now sample a wide variety from Oolong to mint. I sometimes drink 2-4 cups a day, especially when I need to unwind after a long day. To this day when I smell cinnamon, I remember the time I used to spend at her house, and whenever I am feeling nostalgic and missing her, I would brew up a cup. Everyone in my family calls the concoction "Mama Tea" and my little sister, 7, who loves it very much, will no doubt continue on the tea drinking tradition and pass it on to her children.

 To submit a tea story, e-mail us.
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11. Next Issue . . .
- - - > Tea 4 Free Winners
- - - > Finishing Touches For Your Cup of Tea
- - - > Loose Tea vs. Bagged Tea
- - - > A TEAmptation Recipe
- - - > More New Tea Products for the New Year
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12. Credits
This issue of Tea 4 Free News - Teazine was researched and written by Daisy Lieu, Marketing Director for Tea Connexions. The html version of this newletter and all web sites www.leaftea.com, www.teabizinabox.com, www.tea4free.com, and www.leafteabiz.com are managed and created by our Creative Director, Suruchi Gupta. If you would like more information about how you can benefit from her services, click here.
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