The most commonly sold drinks vary from hot beverages, to soft drinks (from your Westinghouse fridge), to alcohol and the list even includes water. Bottled water is a popular drink to buy even though you can easy get it from the tap. It is likely the popularity of bottled water has increased due to the [...] Read more »
It's Time to Get a New Iced Tea Maker and other Appliances
I need a new iced tea maker because a few weeks ago, my local electric company did something stupid and overloaded the 110v line coming into my house. The end result is that everything using 110v (that was plugged in at the time) no longer works. I know how to make iced tea the old-fashioned [...] Read more »
Sweet Tea Southern Fried Chicken
If there's anything I like better than the beverages of coffee and tea, it's the food that's prepared with either of them. Now, rather than try to convince you that I know anything about cooking more than the average household food, here's a video from SmashMouthonTV: Read more »
Does Green Tea Increase Life Expectancy?
For years, green tea has been touted as a healthy beverage with anti-oxidant and anti-aging qualities. Studies in China and Japan have fully or partially confirmed many of the touted benefits of long term green tea consumption, including the prevention of age-related diseases. Green tea now belongs to the host of health products whose proponents [...] Read more »
The Top Five Hot Beverages Served at Cafes
In the cold winter months there is nothing like having a hot drink served in your favourite cafe. Relax where you are warm and comfortable with the world rushing by and settle back with a good book or the paper. Even sit out on the outdoor pavers under a gas heater and feel warmer with [...] Read more »
Drinking Hot Tea vs. Hot Coffee
One of the things I've noticed about myself lately is that I drink way too much coffee. It's not really a bad thing, in my opinion, because what I consider too much isn't what others might consider too much. I don't like cold coffee (iced coffee or anything like that) because then I drink more [...] Read more »
South-East Asia: The Land of Tea
There's been a surge of interest in the teas produced in South-East Asia: Thai teas, Malay teas and Indonesian teas are more and more popular in the Western market. Not obvious tea destinations (India and China hotels offer tea plantation visits, for example), South-East Asian countries still produce some of the best teas in the [...] Read more »
Hotel Mini Bar – Mostly Bad for Your Health and Diet
Unless you stop and have a think about it, you have probably never realized that your hotel mini bar is an abomination for your health. For those who are regularly traveling and working, this is a very serous issue, especially when you consider that is their option normally 5 days out of every week. Here [...] Read more »
All Natural, Organic Hampstead Tea – Rediscover Iced Tea
During the hot summer months in the Philippines, I love to savor the flavor of a good iced tea blend. Unfortunately, the choices are limited to by what's imported to my local area. Nevertheless, the Hampstead Tea iced tea blends sound delicious. I won't bother to go into the details because they've been kind enough [...] Read more »
Do you like Fruit-flavored Coffee or Tea?
There are multiple ways to add flavors to both coffee and tea and some companies, in my opinion, take it to extremes. With tea, you can add flavors to the tea bags or to the instant version. You can also add it with flavored creamers. With coffee, it's almost the same thing. When it comes [...] Read more »