This week's tea room postcard features an establishment that is actually still in business, the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. The ...

I just realized I've had a "first" here on Tea With Friends. Every single day this week I've featured a lovely "freeb...

Jenn in Massachusetts e-mailed a few days ago and said she had "a little something" she wanted to send me. When her package arrive...

This week I decided to try a tea tasting with some of the new samples I received from Golden Tips, and it struck me it might be fun to compa...

There are many reasons to love fall, but in recent years I have added a new one: I seem to hear from more tea companies offering to send me ...

Nancy Reppert! Since I already have your address, Nancy, I'll soon have this headed your way. Congrats!

Anyone who has entered an American bookstore in the last 20 years or so has probably come across one of the books in Arcadia Publishing'...

I don't often come across a tea room postcard with text written on the front, but that's the case with this one written on December ...

It's been a crazy busy week at my house, so I was more than ready to relax a little and thus overjoyed when a particular package landed ...

One of the things I most enjoy about sampling new teas is comparing varieties and discovering new flavor experiences. This week I received s...

The new issue of the Upton Tea Quarterly has arrived, and the cover image is of tea merchant Thomas J. Lipton's Shamrock , at right, sho...

My baking is often inspired by whatever I've got sitting around that needs to be used. This time, it was some sweet potatoes fresh from ...

Recently a friend of mine mistakenly bought some loose leaf tea instead of teabags and had nothing to prepare it with. I was happy to supply...

The Russian Tea Room is perhaps one of the most legendary tea rooms in the country, so I was quite intrigued when I came across a vintage po...

One of my favorite tea room cookbooks is this weathered old copy of "Favorite Recipes from Something Special" by Martha Sue McCain...

Recently I learned that my fellow tea blogger Marilyn J. Miller had published a new book, "Tea Outdoors," so I ordered a copy and ...

When I used my Barnes & Noble gift card to buy some tea there over the weekend, I had enough funds left on the card to treat myself to t...

Last week, the unthinkable happened: I realized I'd run out of fancy tea-themed soaps! I've had so many of them for so long, I just ...

When fall officially arrives, my tastebuds are ready to party. A new season means new teas, and I found two that were quite a bargain at Bar...