I used to drink a lot of coffee: When I used to work from home, I required Two caffatieres full of strong back coffee to overcome my lethargy and attend to the boring affairs of my piffling tight-pursed clients. I require enough caffene to make a gorilla heamorage before I am able to concentrate on anything more productive than reading slashdot.org.
But all that has changed; along wtith the respectability of working for a major financial institution, I have decided to partially kick my drug habit, at least outside the office: I shall not consume any more coffee, except for Starbucks (In the staff canteen), Pret (at breakfast), and the nasty slurry that passes for coffee from machines at work. Now I drink tea at home, and my favourite kind is Green Jasmine tea:
Jasmine tea is much the same thing as your standard Green or Pouchong (Chinese Green) tea, however it has been flavoured by a brief soujorn with the jasmine flower. This moment of intamacy imparts a light, almost sweet aroma; perhaps the tea is wistfully pondering how different things could be, had it’s tea-plant been lucky enough to grow adjacent to a jasmine grove in a world where both tea and jasmine are admired for their appearance and not flavour. Alas, after an all too brief exposure, the jasmine flowers are discarded and the tea leaves are allowed to ferment, shrivel and dry before being packed and shipped to the tea-drinkers of the world.
While you can get teabags full of this stuff, I think it is better to buy it loose-leaf. I suppose you could use a traditional English teapot, however I personly prefer to use a caffatiere - I like to see the little green leaves spinning as I swirl the yellow fluid.
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