Learn how to cold-brew your tea for a refreshing, end-of-summer treat. Lindsey shares the know-how for this cool and easy brewing method.
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Jasmine Green Tea Lemonade Recipe
When the weather gets hot, Jasmine Green Tea Lemonade chills the palette and calms the mind. It’s one of the best-sellers at our Tea Lounges, but for years we’ve held the recipe as a closely-guarded secret. Take a look as we lay bare our coveted Iced Tea recipe.
The Path Starts Here
Maybe what we need is to spend time nourishing ourselves so that we can truly give to others? Wouldn’t you love feeling completely unrushed, and totally present?
Success Ritual #3, Being Grateful For Thorns
You might not spend time consciously visualizing your future, but I bet you have a pretty clear idea of where you’re going; if you’re like most Samovarians, you’ve got ambitious goals to complete before 2013 is done. So let me ask, on a scale of 1 to 10 how close are you to living your ideal life?
There’s Only One First Time: A Samovar Oolong Tradition
Oolong tea can be dangerous. Lilies explode in full bloom… Autumn leaves fall in the woods… Tree-ripened peach juice drips down your chin… The aromas and flavors weave together in beguiling combination. An experience with oolong lingers in your memory like a lover’s kiss.
Success Ritual #3, How To Identify Your Core Values
When I’m traveling and I tell people what I do, they often roll their eyes and say, “A tea lounge? Only in San Francisco!” Now we have three Tea Lounges plus an online shop, but the truth is, Samovar almost never happened — even in San Francisco. Of the banks that made time to meet, […]
Success Ritual #2, From Shoe-Shine to Samovar, The Power of Visualization
Things do not change; we change. — Henry David Thoreau To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. — Winston Churchhill Knock, knock, knock. “One minute!” A woman’s voice replies from inside the single-story suburban home. The door opens. “Hello?” “Hello, ma’am,” I say. “Have you ever considered what would happen […]
Success Ritual #1, The Wake Up Shower
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. –Thomas Edison Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half-dead. In a steakhouse, you see […]
Tea Traditions: Afternoon Tea
At Samovar Tea Lounge, our tea and food menu draws from tea cultures around the world, from Morocco, to Japan, to China, to India. One of our most popular dishes is the English Tea Service, inspired by the traditional “afternoon tea.” The 19th-century Duchess of Bedford is credited with inventing afternoon tea. At the time, […]
4 Steps to Facing Your Fears
Fear is sticky, like glue. The initial emotion of fear may only last a few minutes, but if we let it linger, it can get stuck in our system for days, months, or even a lifetime. The sensation of fear is effective if it protects us from real threats. The fight-or-flight reaction has helped humans […]