Category Archives: Fair Trade

Chocolates

By Anupa | Published: October 11, 2009
No question, we love chocolates.  But not any chocolates.  For the Tea Room, we look for smaller bars, organic if possible, fair trade when available and a lower fat or calorie content in at least some of the selections.  For taste, we look for depth, purity and smoothness.  Over the years, we have perfected our [...]
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Makaibari 2009 now available

By Silver Tips | Published: August 14, 2009
How auspicious that the first chests we will open at our new office & warehouse today will be the 2009 Makaibari 1st and 2nd flush.  We will be opening the season with lot DJ 14/09 which is the first flush and DJ 110/09 which will be the second flush. In Darjeeling, each day’s manufacture is [...]
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Fair Trade

By Silver Tips | Published: July 31, 2009
Today we make our 2nd quarter 2009 payments to each estate from which we purchase Fair Trade teas.  The way it works is that we tally all Fair Trade activities during a quarter and then send in the Fair Trade contributions to a specially-established account for each estate.  I often hear derogatory comments about Fair [...]
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More from the Fancy Food Show

By Silver Tips | Published: July 8, 2009
For some reasons, sweet items do better for us than savory.  We are ourselves partial to savory items and think they are a fine counterpoint to tea but our customers think otherwise.  This is especially true of small, impulse items placed near the register or a small item to finish off a meal in lieu [...]
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Yunnan Green Lily – New!

By Silver Tips | Published: June 19, 2009
We used to have a phenomenal tea called Jing Mai Green. It was an authentic ancient forest green tea from Yunnan from the Jing Mai region. Over the years, the price crept up until it became unaffordable and we were forced to discontinue it. Today, we received our first batch of its replacement – another [...]
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