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  • Gifts for the Discerning Tea Lover

    Gifts for the Discerning Tea Lover

    • November 28, 2017
    • By The Tea Stylist
    • Style and Design, Tea Cuisine
    • no comments

    There are still some good suggestions on the previous post (2013), but so much has happened in the tea world and my tea life that I thought it deserved an update.   curati.co I’m often asked which teas I can [...]

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  • The Gaiwan: Tea Vessel With Soul

    The Gaiwan: Tea Vessel With Soul

    • March 16, 2016
    • By The Tea Stylist
    • Style and Design, Tea Knowledge
    • 6 comments

    When I first embarked upon my tea studies at George Brown College in Toronto, I was introduced to an odd little tea vessel – the gaiwan  -  which looked like a wide-lipped sugar bowl with lid and saucer. I struggled [...]

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  • Tea, Pottery and an Infographic

    Tea, Pottery and an Infographic

    • May 9, 2014
    • By The Tea Stylist
    • Style and Design
    • 2 comments

    Emma Bridgewater Revitalizes an Industry The Emma Bridgewater website is a feast for colour-hungry tea ware browsers. There are teapots, mugs, cups and saucers in floral, dot and animal themed patterns. My favourite pattern is “Black Toast” – stylized calligraphy [...]

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  • Gifts for the Discerning Tea Lover

    Gifts for the Discerning Tea Lover

    • November 22, 2013
    • By The Tea Stylist
    • Style and Design
    • 8 comments

      We all have friends and relations who love tea in a special way. We won’t call them tea snobs, but let’s just say that they are very particular about the teaware they use and the way they prepare and [...]

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  • Fashion travels the Silk Road

    Fashion travels the Silk Road

    • March 22, 2012
    • By The Tea Stylist
    • Style and Design
    • no comments

    Carpets fit for the Runway When Korhani Home rolled out the carpet at Toronto’s Fashion Week, they had no intention for it to be walked on. Instead they found ingenious ways to evoke style eras through history, reflecting the seasonal [...]

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  • Marie Saint Pierre infuses Spring designs with Tea’s Glitter & Gold

    Marie Saint Pierre infuses Spring designs with Tea’s Glitter & Gold

    • October 21, 2011
    • By The Tea Stylist
    • Style and Design
    • 1 comment

    Marie Saint Pierre at LG Fashion Week Toronto Marie Saint Pierre is a Montreal, Canada womenswear designer known for free-flowing, artistically inspired garments. Her clothing is a favourite of many of Canada’s cultural luminaries. Her clothes drape, wrap and layer [...]

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  • Tea in a Tiny Hotel

    Tea in a Tiny Hotel

    • September 26, 2011
    • By Gerald Robinson
    • Style and Design
    • 1 comment

    Guest post by Gerald Robinson It’s a very tiny hotel, just 3 inches high, and could hold about 4 oz. of loose tea; -  a reproduction of London’s Berkeley Hotel. In 1972 the Berkeley Hotel moved from Piccadilly to its [...]

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  • The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties

    • April 21, 2011
    • By The Tea Stylist
    • Style and Design
    • 2 comments

    If you love the era that brought women the right to vote, a release from the corset and shorter skirts, you will want to visit  The Bata Shoe Museum’s latest Exhibit – The Roaring Twenties: Heels, Hemlines and High Spirits. [...]

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  • Inspired and Original – Teaware

    Inspired and Original – Teaware

    • April 3, 2011
    • By The Tea Stylist
    • Style and Design
    • no comments

    The One Of A Kind Spring Show visited Toronto recently and The Tea Stylist was on a mission to find hand-crafted teaware. We walked the aisles from A to Q and found some lovely artisan ‘objets’ that I’m sure you [...]

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Linda Gaylard is author of The Tea Book, by DK Publishing (a division of Penguin Random House). Linda is also a Certified Tea Sommelier located in the city of Toronto, Canada. She graduated from a comprehensive program of study developed by George Brown College, with certification by The Tea Association of Canada. During her year-long training, Linda studied an extensive program of courses, including sensory perception, tea and food pairing, tea regions and terroir, tea history among other tea focused subjects... Read More

 

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