Six Golden Tips for Tea

With the start of the new year, we are all turning over new leaves. But are you turning over a new tea leaf?

Is your tea flavorless? Insipid? Bitter? Ordinary? Or worse… Cheesy?

Here, just in time, come the six golden tips for making the perfect cup of tea.

Think you know all about everything already? Did you know this golden rule: never, ever EVER store tea near cheese.

Neither did I.

Follow these tea tips and then your year will be off to a good start!

You're welcome.

SLJ.

Al and Monkey attempt a military operation

click here to watch this short clip that illustrates the crucialness of tea in all circumstances, all walks of life, at any given moment of the day.

Al and Sock Monkey Dark and Stormy Night

Continuing our Al and Monkey series here's some background. Johnny Vegas and his knitted sidekick Monkey were catapulted to fame thanks to the commercials they did to launch ITV Digital in the UK. (I'll post one of those later.) Now they're doing PG Tips ads. (You saw them interviewed in an earlier post.)

PG Tips first introduced teabags in 1930. Its advertising was traditionally featuring real chimpanzees engaging in human activities. Today, it's a stuffed sock that's being the refined human. click here to watch one of Al and Monkey's fabulous adverts. I think it's living proof that the Brits really are the best at adverts (and silliness).

Johnny Vegas - Al and Monkey talk about tea

well sorry about the infrequent blogging there but I've been away in The Land of Tea (and Maltesers and Christmas Puddings and Chocolate Digestives and all scrumdiddley umptious things like that)... but I thought now would be the time to share this funny duo. Comedian Johnny Vegas as Al and his woollen sidekick Monkey talk about tea in this exclusive behind the scenes footage from their PG Tips campaign... This fascinating clip explains what Al and Monkey have been up to and how they like their tea ... It's a very important question to establish. (I like mine strong, in a pot, inside a tea cosy, and definitely, definitely milk in first) How about you?

30 million cups of tea

Just heard about a campaign afoot to make a triangle of Manhattan forever England... Little Britain in The Big Apple campaign.

Richard Branson, Mike Myers, Paul Smith are all backing it. They're hoping it'll be in Greenwich village, where Tea & Sympathy is (opened by Nick Perry 17 years ago--they've served over 30m cups of tea!) and A Salt & Battery (a fish and chip shop next door). Close to Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Soho House, Manhattan outpost of the London club.

I'm all for it. It's essential to have a place in NYC to get the perfect cup of tea (aside from your own kitchen). As we Brits well know, a nice cup of tea is the solution to all sorts of important things--a good deal more than you might imagine.

If you want to see a funny "party political broadcast" spoof--plus ensure you always have a nice cup of tea waiting for you in the Big Apple click here.