I can remember a time when we would walk the aisles of our local supermarket and see nothing but bagged tea….and mostly from the big players like Tetley and Lipton. My how things have changed! Today there are many varieties of tea from Green teas, black teas, Oolongs, and even herbal teas abound! There really is a tea for almost any occassion.
And then it happened.
These same teas were being offered as loose leaf teas. Woah. Hold on – you mean tea didn’t just come in crushed tiny little bits? I thought all teas were somehow pulverized in a large pepper mill somehow and out they came, directly to our supermarkets and pantries.
Once I took one of these strange ‘loose teas’ off the shelf and home with me I felt like I had found some undiscovered exotic plant. And the amazing thing was that a lot of the leafs I could actually recognize. Now this was epic. To borrow a line from Russell Peters it was a total mind blasting experience to say the least.
So go ahead and take that first step if you haven’t. The experience truly is enlightning and I know once you try loose leaf teas you will never settle for anything less
