Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Category: Tea and Food

  • A Great Day to Chai (Devotea Origins Part VII)

      Series Note: At long last, the final installment in my self-indulgent series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. If you’ve got this far, your torment is almost over. This is Part VII. Who doesn’t love a good chai. Well, a few people , but we can dismiss them out of hand. In…

  • Sunny Side Up

    In a small coop in our backyard, we have two chickens: Lotus and Miss Moneyhenny. I say a  small coop, but in reality, the coop is nicely proportioned but the chickens, who have just hit six months old, are the size of cows.* Lotus and/or Miss Moneyhenny, but most likely both, have just started showing their appreciation for the palatial living quarters,…

  • History is Alive and Well

    Last night, Lady Devotea and I put on an event. A tea event, naturally! As part of the Adelaide Wine & Food Festival, we have struggled to get noticed above the parapet of the festivals’s focus, which is wine and seafood, wine and beef,wine and more wine, wine, a bit more food with wine, and wine. Nevertheless,…

  • No Shame, but Plenty of Blame

    I know from the evidence of my own 1.8 eyes (one’s not very good) that people often order coffee at the end of a meal. Most people do not eat out every day. Sure, some people might buy the same plastic burger everyday for lunch or start each day with an oil-soaked hash brown served at somewhere between the boiling point of titanium and the temperature of a…

  • We Fancied a Cuppa

    Yesterday I drank some tea. Not an unusual occurrence, I think we can all agree without fear of contradiction. I was in the company of Lady Devotea. Again, not exactly unusual. It wasn’t even the first time we’ve been out and about and enjoyed our own teas served to us at a café/restaurant/tea room. But it was…

  • Steps to a Tea Spangled Christmas

    I’ve been quiet of late on the blogging front. On-line generally.  A few blogs here and there, a few incredibly funny or incredibly venomous comments – the best ones are both. But not much. I notice it has coincided with with a couple of other bloggers also going to ground a bit. Between @lazy_literatus and…

  • Alright, Listen Up! Tea Sets the Standard…

    So, you drink loose leaf tea? Excellent. Not for you that rubbish that comes in bags. You prefer quality, and taste. I fully support you in this. And one thing more we might agree on, is that the ‘convenience’ argument is pretty limp, isn’t it? “Oh, a teabag is soooo much easier than using an infuser…

  • Tea and The Dawn of History

    Here’s yet another blog where I combine tea and history and travel, albeit with quite a misleading title. From this photo, taken from our hotel window this morning, you might assume we are somewhere tropical. Not so. We are in Kingscote, because both Lady Devotea and I have been commissioned to write articles for upcoming editions of…

  • Onwards and Backwards

    The last three days in England have been spent without internet for various reasons, and there is a bit of a logjam of blog posts. So even though I write this about 15 hours ahead of our departure from this country and hemisphere, it seems to me I can’t post it until we arrive back…

  • First you heat the water…

    Bath. It’s all about water. Called Aquae Sulis by The Romans, the centrepiece of the town of Bath is a massive Roman Bath complex, with columns and statues, All very impressive. All Victorian. Yes, in 1897, on top of the old, genuine remains, some well-meaning individuals basically rebuilt a fake that, with more than a…