19 January 2007

Raring to Go

Rare Tea Company

Rare sights of today:
Free parking space
Bus conductor
East African bongo
Real tits

Some more: green, oolong and silver-tip teas, courtesy of Rare Tea Company. Rare, because their delicate leaves can be harvested only for a few days a year, at dawn, before the buds have opened.

These teas aren’t any old bags (in fact, they come loose). Founder and chief cha lady Henrietta Lovell lovingly treks up Chinese mountains to source the best leaves; all are packaged without the bulky stalks used by some con artists.

They’ve been called miracle cures. The jasmine silver tip is packed with antioxidants, which help keep colds at bay. It has even been linked to cancer prevention by several objective slurpers.

Whether that’s unfounded or true, you’re still probably better off drinking these than a chemically charged mug of freeze-dried coffee; and you’ll probably be calmer, too.

Perhaps another of today’s rarities.

Available online at rareteacompany.com.