Greetings
to
The Cozy Tea Cart's
Newsletter members,
After this unseasonably cold, snowy,
and rainy April, I think we have finally entered into spring!
In April, I had the wonderful opportunity to enjoy a Japanese
Tea Ceremony Demonstration at
Ikebana Flower,
in Nashua, NH. Owner, Antoinette Drouart, is a certified
teacher of Ikebana Japanese flower arranging. She hosted
Sensei William Thrasher, a tea master from the Urasenke School.
The tea ceremony offered a wonderful introduction to the beauty
of traditional Japanese culture, a short history of the tea
ceremony, while Sensei showed the guests through all the steps
for making a bowl of Japanese tea. The demonstration was both
educational and peaceful. Check their website for further
details on up-coming Japanese Tea Ceremonies, and the variety of
Japanese flower arranging classes offered at the Ikebana Flower
shop!
If you enjoy flowers and gardening,
I’m sure you are frantically trying to clean out your gardens
before the flowers start to blossom. I hope you can find the
time to sip a cup of tea while enjoying the beauty and scents of
the flowering pear, apple and cherry trees and the tiny pink,
white and purple phlox bursting into bloom! And speaking of
blooms, this month for Mother’s Day and next month for our
Summer Open House Gathering, we will be featuring our
NEW
Blooming Teas! What better way to enjoy the beauty
nature has to offer than with a pot of Chinese Silver Needle tea
buds, abundant in antioxidants and beautiful flowers that bloom
into amazing floral bouquets!
I’m pleased to convey that the spring
clean-up of the gardens surrounding
The Cozy Tea Cart
have been raked and pruned and they have already begun to
blossom! Stop by on June 2nd for our
Summer Open House Gathering between 10:00 and 4:00
and take a stroll through the gardens. There will be food and
tea to sample, local artists and authors to visit with, our
favorite chef, Liz Barbour of
The Creative Feast
who will be doing cooking demonstrations infused with The Cozy
Tea Cart’s tea, and
Jared Rocco entertaining us with his jazz music.
Take the time for yourself before the rush of your summer
schedule sets in.
IN THIS MONTHS NEWSLETTER, you
will find the following news items:
THIS MONTHS FEATURED TEAS
All monthly specials
are 10% off!
Visit us at
The Cozy Tea Cart to view our full line of freshly imported
teas and unique gift items!
Blooming
Silver Needle White Teas
These unique quality teas are a work of art!
Silver Needle Tea is the highest quality white tea and is
harvested during the Spring before the buds open to preserve
tenderness. It is very delicate providing a pale yellow brew
with a fresh light flavor.
Vacuum-sealed at the Chinese tea estate – 1 bud - $3.00 (Makes 3
pots of tea!)
Peach Black Tea
A Ceylon black tea blended with sunflower blossoms and all
natural flavoring. Perfect hot or iced!
Loose Tea - 4 oz - $7.00
Strawberry Green
If you love strawberries, this is the tea for you! It is a
blend of organic green sencha tea, organic fog tea, Pai Mu Tan
white tea, Lung Ching green, Genmaicha green, strawberry bits,
all natural strawberry cream flavoring, and sunflower blossoms.
Loose Tea - 4 oz - $7.35
UP-COMING EVENTS
OPEN HOUSE – SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd-
from 10:00am – 4:00pm, at
The Cozy Tea Cart,
in Brookline, NH.
TEA AND
COOKIES WITH AUTHOR KIM PONDERS – THURSDAY, JUNE
7th
from 6:00 – 7:30pm at
at
The Cozy Tea Cart,
in Brookline, NH.
WORLD TEA EXPO
- FRIDAY-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8TH-13TH,
in Atlanta, GA. The Tea Shoppe will be closed during this
time.
KNITTING CLUB - Eats,
Knits, and Leaves –
MONDAY, JUNE 11th
from 7:00 – 9:00pm at the Toad
Stool Bookstore in Milford, NH.
JUNE IN BLOOM EXHIBIT
WITH TEA LECTURE FEATURING BLOOMING TEAS -
SATURDAY, JUNE 23rd
at 2:00pm at the Sharon Arts Museum, Peterborough, NH.
SPECIALTY TEA INSTITUTE –
FRIDAY-WEDNESDAY, JULY 6th-11th
in New York, NY. The Tea
Shoppe will be closed during this time.
COOKING WITH TEA - LECTURE AND
DEMONSTRATION – SUNDAY, JULY 15th
from 3:00 – 5:00pm, in
The Cozy Tea Cart Gardens,
in Brookline, NH.
Reservations and advanced payment required please.
ICED TEA
TASTING – THURSDAY, JULY
19th
from 3:00 – 6:30pm at
the Manchester Farmers Market.
Check out our
Events page for tea tastings and
events in your area, as well as for more information about
the events listed above!
OUR
SPRING CONTEST has started—Begin writing!!:
The spring
contest runs from March 1 through May 31 and is titled:
Tea and Poetry: My Poetic
Experience. In this
contest, use one of The Cozy Tea Cart’s fine quality
tea or your experience visiting the tea shoppe to
compile your own tea poem! The poem can be as short as one
verse or as long as four verses, it’s up to you! Let the fresh
scents of spring blossoms help you to get those creative
thoughts flowing! Steep yourself a cup of tea, find a quiet
nook, and start writing! Click
here for full details. A copy of the winning poem will be
published in our June, 2007 newsletter. The July and August
2007 newsletters will have a link to your poem on our web site.
All submissions should be mailed to
The Cozy Tea Cart, 40
Mountain Rd., Brookline, NH 03033 or emailed to
www.thecozyteacart.com, before May 31, 2007.
Your submission will be judged according to our Seasonal Contest
Rules. We can not wait to see how creative our customers are!
WE HAVE A WINTER CONTEST WINNER!!:
The winter contest, Cooking
with Tea / My Tea-licious Recipe is
over and we have a winner. Our
winter contest winner is Rebecca Jeffreys of Pepperell,
Massachusetts. CONGRATULATIONS Rebecca! Her delicious recipe
is shown below. I would encourage you to try her very healthy
recipe for Golden Gluten-Free Muffins featuring Montana Gold
Tea from The Cozy Tea
Cart. They are
delicious!
HEALTH NEWS
Tea
'healthier' drink than water
BBC News
Drinking three or more cups of tea a
day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water and may even
have extra health benefits, say researchers. The work in the
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition dispels the common belief
that tea dehydrates. Tea not only rehydrates as well as water
does, but
…to
view the remainder of this article,
click here.
We hope that you
have enjoyed reading through our newsletter. Your comments and
suggestions are a valuable part of
The Cozy Tea
Carts growth and development. Please
continue to email or call us. We love hearing from you!
Teafully yours,
Danielle Beaudette
The Cozy Tea Cart
603-249-9111
www.TheCozyTeaCart.com
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