Seasoning my oolong pot
Without seasoning, the tea from this little beauty tasted like chalky sand in the mouth. Yugh. I got it last year in the town of Yixing, China from Master Zhou, a master potter of yixing clay teapots for which the town is famous. Most yixing clay is a brown-purple...
1933 felt hat tea cosy
I love this recycling idea from the days when every household had an old felt hat around. This comes from a 1933 item in a newspaper in northern Australia. Here's the link to the original file.