http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress Private label tea packaging, custom blend tea and herbal blends from Lapis Teahouse. Product and industry updates. Tea related news of the weird! Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:38:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tea is not only a drink but also useful for us in many other ways. Here are 15 wonderful uses for tea. 1. Apply a wet tea bag on the razor burn to reduce the pain 2. Place the lukewarm tea bags on your closed eyes ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=85 A nice cup of tea —George Orwell If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=84 The major tea producers in the world, in a bid to regulate production, supply and expand the market, have decided to constitute an International Tea Producers Forum (ITPF) during the International Tea Convention (ITC) that ended at Colombo on August 30. The ITPF is expected to be formally launched at the ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=83 http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=82 Officials believe sparks from a welder’s torch touched off a roaring blaze that demolished the Boston Tea Party & Museum’s shuttered gift shop at the city’s Fort Point Channel - six years after another fire shut down the historic landmark. The wooden structure went up in ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=81 The private-label business keeps growing, creating more competition for national brands. And private label isn’t always the cheaper product these days. Food Lion, a subsidiary of Delhaize Group in Brussels, is introducing more private-label brands throughout the summer. Delhaize Group U.S. wants to increase its private-brand penetration over the next several ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=80 Tea too strong? Too weak? Problem solved. This nattily attired tea penguin always brews the perfect cup. Set the timer for your ideal brew time (from 1 minute up to 20) and he lowers the teabag into the water. When the time is up, he lifts it out. link http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=79 According to research commissioned by the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA), consumers are increasingly looking to retailers’ private-label brands to fill their needs for new products, as in the case of the Simply Enjoy line of gourmet foods rolling out to Ahold (NYSE:AHO) banners Stop & Shop, Giant-Carlisle, and Giant-Landover, ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=78 A tea price war has seen the cost of a cuppa drop to its lowest level for 30 years. Research released yesterday says supermarkets are selling tea bags at between ½p and 1p each, which, when inflation is taken into account, makes them about four times cheaper than in 1977. However, some ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=77 Ralcorp Holdings of St Louis has seen sales surge close to 60% over the last few years, thanks to steady sales of its cereal, crackers, cookies and jellies. But don’t look for the Ralcorp brand name on your supermarket shelves. The food company is the among the largest “private-label” manufacturers, which ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=76 IN MY LOCAL supermarket, ordinary leaf tea has now been consigned to the very bottom shelf. You have to clamber onto your hands and knees to locate a packet, as if you’re involved in the worship of some strange deity. Tea-bag tea dominates the shelves. Making proper tea, in a pot ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=75 The brew has been 80-year-old Bhismadeb’s food and drink for the past 22 years, and 62-year-old Debabrata’s for 12. The two tea drinkers don’t know about each other although both live in Burdwan district. A resident of Daihat in Katwa, about 170 km from Calcutta, Bhismadeb gave up food for ever ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=74 Green tea is rich in polyphenol antioxidants, which are believed to help protect against cancer and heart disease. A study from China has reported beneficial associations between regular consumption of green tea and colorectal cancer risk. The disease affects around a million people worldwide and is linked to poor eating ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=73 Because of “excessive liquidity”, or too much cash in circulation and in people’s hands, not only stocks and housing but some unusual commodities can easily become items for speculation in today’s China. Pu’er tea, a fully fermented variety made from sun-dried leaves, has taken a roller-coaster ride since the beginning of ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=72 http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=71 Taking commuters’ interest into count, senior superintendent of police M.S. Bhatia has relaxed the deadline for shutting tea and betel kiosks dotting the railway stations and bus stands. But there is no respite for the shop owners in other parts of the city. After the relaxation, tea and betel stall owners ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=70 Last September when Tata Tea met analysts to discuss their $677 million Glaceau acquisition, bottles of Himalayan mineral water on the dais were hurriedly replaced with Glaceau’s Vitamin Water. Himalayan could be back on stage tomorrow when Tata Tea meets the media to announce its March quarter and annual results. ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=69 Herbal agents could be used to treat inflammatory bladder diseases, according to a preliminary study that looked at the ability of green tea to protect bladder cells from inflammation. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Anaheim, ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=68 Wednesday 23rd of May 2007 A dead leopard was found in a tea estate near Siliguri in West Bengal, triggering concern over the rising man-animal conflict due to rapid urbanisation in north Bengal. A full-grown leopard was found dead inside the Phulbari-Patan tea estate area in Siliguri Tuesday. It presumably died ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=67 Technology, rot and now fire have caught up with the Cutty Sark, the graceful clipper ship built in the 19th century to speed fresh tea from China to Britain’s tables. After a quick look at the charred hull in Greenwich, England, custodians of the world’s only surviving tea clipper said yesterday ... http://lapisteahouse.com/wordpress/?p=66