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August 24th, 2010 Seattle Area Tea House Celebrates Ancient Chinese Traditions

Xiu Xian Tea, which has locations in Kent, WA and Bellevue, WA, has been nominated for 2010 Best Tea House.Seattle tea room Xiu Xian Tea has achieved local acclaim as one of the best sources of imported loose leaf teas. The proprietors greet customers and invite them to sit down to tea, where an entertaining lesson in the history and culture of tea ensues.

The Chinese people have been raising and brewing teas for thousands of years. Legend says that the emperor Shennong introduced tea to the Chinese people around the year 2700 BCE. Tea became so important to Chinese culture that important books were written about tea agriculture and brewing thousands of years ago. Traditional Chinese medicine has also made use of various tea blends and herbal teas to treat many illnesses. Xiu Xian Tea’s experts can discuss many of the traditional uses of herbal and traditional teas for people.

The oldest known tea tree is located in Jinxiu Village in Fengqing County, Yunnan Province and is believed to be about 3,200 years old. A half-kilogram teacake of Pu’er tea from the tea was auctioned off in 2007 with a reserve price of more than $38,900.00. That is the most expensive tea in the world.

The Kent, WA store of Xiu Xian Tea is located at 308 Washington Ave South.  The Bellevue store is located at 15600 NE 13th Street, suite O-16 in the Crossroads Shopping Center.Xiu Xian Tea has been nominated for 2010 Best Tea House in western Washington. Customers may vote for their favorite tea houses beginning August 30. A field of more than a dozen premier tea houses is being considered in the competition.

Although traditional tea is divided into five major grades (Dust-D, Fanning, Broken Orange Pekoe, Orange Pekoe, and Flowery Orange Pekoe) many people are more familiar with the terms “white tea” (aka “young tea”), green (unfermented) tea, oolong (partially fermented) tea, and black (fermented) tea. Regardless of which scale one uses, traditional teas come in many varieties.

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July 3rd, 2010 Send a Message — Send a Gift Basket

Let’s introduce you to 1800Baskets — the new web store designed to cater to all your gift-giving requirements from the major online vendor 1800Flowers. A problem-free means of gift purchasing and delivery, the service has a global presence. Baskets assembled by the 1800Baskets.com store include all sorts of lovely trinkets and treasures for all occasions. Their food is, in particular, a treat for gourmands. Most baskets boast crackers, meat, cheeses and fruit for the production of platters guaranteed to please. Factor in the wine included in most baskets and it’s easy to see why they deserve their stellar reputation. Don’t worry if you prefer your snack foods on the sweeter side, as options abound. You can buy sweetmeats exclusively or combine them with a variety of nibbles so colleagues, associates, and friends can each have their favorites. Cakes, for example, will further provide that sweet taste the recipient craves while offering some added variety.

They also market gift baskets tailored to those who like sweet tastes but refrain from refined sugar. Such arrangements encompass hampers of fruit varieties, tropical baskets, and boxes of cheese & fruit, so anyone should be able to find something they like. You might instead send a spa hamper, filled with anything you might require for a long bath.

Who can deny that the festive season merits its own approach? 1800Baskets.com feels that the answer is obvious. An assortment of trinkets, mints, cookies, crackers, treats, and lots of other delectable items are collated in beautiful boxes and baskets. The aesthetic can vary, from austere packages intended for business partners and work events to full-blown Christmas trees that your children will love. They also offer attractive baskets to celebrate anniversaries, weddings, signing a contract, birthdays, closing a business deal, as well as many other special events.

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Delivering to anywhere, 1800Baskets.com confidently pledge to supply the finest gifts available. No matter what you order, you can be sure that it’ll reach its recipient precisely as it looked on 1800Baskets.com — and it takes almost no effort on your part.

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June 2nd, 2010 Spring and Summer Entertaining Hints

It’s summer! Given the hot temperatures, an open-air H2O occasion for your youngster and his friends would be a complete way to keep everyone air-conditioned! Summer entertaining is all about fine food, bubbly drinks, and a casual ambiance, specially when you are hosting a pool celebration. Bait invitees’ tastes with this citrus-infused menu that includes Lemon, Caper and Parmesan Pasta Salad, Pineapple Glazed Shrimp Spits, Lime Mint Calamari Salad, and Orange, Hearts of Palm and Pine Nut Salad. Not only do swimming pools provide a modernistic and stimulating break from the summertime heat, they also make built-in amusement for all styles of parties. While the chance to slush around is playful enough, our list of activities keeps the party going.

A cakes and cocktails party does not demand over the top ornamentation, but choosing a color scheme you can stay to will help everything look swanky and unified without being ‘themey.’ Here are some playful party ideas that will help pull the spirit of your cupcakes and drinks fete unitedly. Use similar trays, platters and cake stands for all goodies and beverages. Purchase a budget-cozy roll of spotted enclosing paper or scrapbook paper from a place like source, and cut it into forms that will line the bottom of each tray and platter. Incorporate some small florals or other table decorations. Incorporate the laced paper into the labels for the cupcakes and the beverages. Produce tailor-made coasters for the celebration that will look gorgeous as well as forbid water marks on your furniture.

The summer season is officially here with masses of garden parties, parties by the pool or on the beach and likewise on the rooftop (if you live in a major metropolis like New York). Music plays a enormous purpose when it comes to summertime entertaining! The best mixture will have fashionable dance tracks to get your occasion on plus, trendy pop classics and ballads for those scintillating summertime evenings. Commence strong with a couple of delicious summer hymns, then dust in a few playful 80’s classics, swanky things off with a couple of ballads and then finish with up-tempo favourites everyone will love to sing along to. The perfect running time is 1 hour, 18 min and 13 seconds — complete for road trips, lingering by the pool or play it at your next fete.

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May 10th, 2010 The Popcorn Factory - America’s Best-Loved Confectionery

Visualize, if you will, what 1.000.000.000 pounds of uncooked popcorn kernels would look like - and if you remember that that is a single year’s American non-wholesale transactions alone, suddenly it becomes clear exactly how many of your friends love the snack. The Popcorn Factory is the country’s biggest provider of gourmet popcorn, tins of popcorn, popcorn favors, popcorn balls and delicious samplers, selling more than 1.000.000 pounds of this appetizing snack annually. It’s even kosher certified.

Considering their thirty years of experience, you can be sure you’re in good hands, whatever variety you crave. To make sure of excellence they first identify the best corn from America. With corn oil, that taste’s maintained as the kernels pop, meaning you can add other flavorings easily. And that fresh taste? To preserve it, straight after preparation, the corn is swiftly sealed up to be sent out.

Their tins go further than most, sized for two and a half and six gallons and filled entirely. So if you’ve a business function that wants snacks providing - or merely want to get your friends and family enough to cater for the next few movie nights - you know what you’re looking for. You’d expect the buttered and plain varieties, but other tastes available may come as a surprise.

On the other hand if that’s not what you want, they do offer other possibilities; among them a range of boxes and smaller tins. Like many presents, these can be embellished to fit the reason they’re being given. There are further customization choices - a fitting picture, your name, even a special note. Some people are sure of a preferred flavor and consequently buy a single large box. You can instead order an assortment or perhaps a sampler. And if you need to buy more than a small measure of assorted types, then towers are the smartest option. And while they offer premade towers, you can also determine what each box will contain in a custom stack.

And there it is; such a range of flavors, such a range of options. Their appropriate and pretty containers can really put a smile on the receiver’s face. So why not spread a little happiness? We’re quite confident it will be well received.

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March 20th, 2010 Cookies Delivered Fresh from the Bakery to Any Address in America from Cheryl and Co

Cheryl and Co can warm the hearts of those you care about with fabulous cookies. The company offers a tremendous choice of choice cookies and brownies and you can send these to anywhere in the country. Each of their wonderful gift boxes, baskets, or tins is attractively wrapped and is then shipped straight to the recipient’s home. Can you think of a more convenient way to cheer up your friends, or for that matter your co-workers? The very first bakery opened for business in Columbus, OH in nineteen eighty one. Not even a decade after opening they had eminently extended their range of edible gifts. It wasn’t long before the company had launched a mail-order catalog, and then introduced a department dedicated to corporate clients. When they went online, this too was extremely popular and they finally joined the 1800Flowers brand family and now are one of the most popular baked goods providers online. Conserving the standards of their old fashioned recipes is the cookie supplier’s main priority. Each batch of cookies is transported quickly to ensure it arrives at the height of freshness. Nothing on sale from Cheryl and Company has any artificial preservatives or additives. The range includes popular tasty treats like triple chocolate and oatmeal raisin, and some more unusual flavor combos, such as chocolate peppermint. The selection is not just limited to cookies either for brownies and premium chocolates are equally available. When you are short on time, a huge range of carefully chosen gift hampers are provided on the internet site. Or else, simply pick out an arrangement and fill it with the treats you think your loved one will like. The delicious brownies are available in buttercream iced, nut and sugar free varieties, and also in small sampler selections. Order an elegantly packaged gift to say thank you a client or business associate. Or you can let a friend know they are in your thoughts by picking out gourmet treats in a novelty basket. There are also cookies made specifically to celebrate Christmas, Halloween, and many other high days and holidays to make sure you can send the perfect gift speedily and without any hassle.

Cheryl and Company have cookies and brownies for even the most unusual individuals, from Easter gift tins to wedding presents and tasty treats for new parents. Thus, next time you need something extra special delivered, why don’t you ring them up?

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February 22nd, 2010 The Skinny Related to Chocolates

Even though Fannie May is a distinctive name all over the nation these days, the business started out small. It all began in the Windy City in the early twenties. Pushing forward this much loved company has evolved from one shop to a thriving organization supplying the US with delicious goodies.

Fannie May’s gift of mixing cocoa, sugar and other quality ingredients in precisely the right way made them so popular they grew to about forty eight shops in merely fifteen years. During wartime food shortages, the doors of the business were shut, because they refused to compromise on the quality of any of their chocolate. Luckily, many of the recipes it used back in the early days are still being used and being sold today.

Of course the chocolates come attractively boxed. Don’t forget to opt for a decorative gift box or tin if the chocolates are for someone else, just to give the candies the perfect finishing touch. The size of a chocolate gift is completely your choice, going from a single chocolate treat to a tower filled with each kind of chocolate truffle, caramels and even luxury pretzels. It is easy to buy a premade package on the website or you can customize the order with particular chocolate treats to make sure everyone has plenty of the ones they like most. Fannie May nowadays own providers not merely in the nation but in various other nations all over the world. So you can order online and have your gift box delivered anywhere at home or abroad. While there are a couple of shipping limitations during the warmer weather, Fannie May has the business network to deliver all sorts of their products internationally.

Even if you are on a low-sugar diet plan or have allergies, there’s chocolate that is suitable for you. Fannie May’s make chocolates with no added sugar and various other sweets too. Should you want a large quantity of smaller gift boxes or special gifts for a wedding banquet, Fannie May can assist you there too. Give them a call or contact Fannie May online with your plans and ideas. Fannie May has become such a thriving chocolate manufacturer and it is all down to its dedication to quality, its support and such a huge variety. Thus, the only tough task will probably be selecting from the vast variety of gift boxes on the web site. With every sweet treat conceivable from nougat to eggnog creams to choose from, you are sure to get exactly what you are looking for.

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February 6th, 2010 Super Themes for a Great Football Bowl Sunday

Inflatables are the direction to go for a Super Bowl celebration. For a fabulous time at halftime and throughout the affair, prepare activities such as an inflatable football game. Invitees can throw the soft darts or tiny footballs from their favor packs, into the catch game’s netting or through the destination posts on an expandable beverage cooler. Be particular to set the activities out of the Television witness’s way, to save clear of those adamant devotees who desire to check the game, commercials and all in between.

A Super Bowl fete should be playful, exhilarating and rich with spirit - just like the activity itself! But for the server, it can also equal emphasising over how in the world you are going to feast all those boisterous rooters. By providing your dwelling as the destination for this yearly assembling of good cheer, you have already passed above and beyond. This yr, make it a potluck celebration and depart the super bowl recipes to your invitees. Everyone will be content to lend once they get a look at the brand-new flat screen you were able to buy with the money you saved on foodstuffs. If you follow our assistive tips and functional checklist, you will be fit to sit back, loosen up and root for your team without ever preparing the stove to 350 degrees.
It’s a given that beer will flow at a Super Bowl celebration! As you are rooting your team on to triumph or weeping in your beer when the other men score, have a little of amiable rivalry of your own by performing one of these imbibing games. Heads up! Play responsibly and choose achiever “bragging rights” rather than brew gulps when participants have had enough to drink.This frothy variation of ping-pong is possibly the most common brew activity encountered at parties.

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January 20th, 2010 The Popcorn Factory: an Online Tour

Shops sold an astonishing 1.000.000.000 pounds of unprepared kernels and shipped out more than 245.000.000 pounds internationally in 2000, making it hardly a surprise that popcorn is one of America’s best loved treats. As a result, over 1.000.000 pounds are produced by the Popcorn Factory, pre-prepared as gourmet popcorn, popcorn balls, tins of popcorn and popcorn favors, every year.

As they have three decades of experience, you can be sure you’re in good hands, whatever mix you crave. To guarantee excellence they first choose the finest, tastiest corn from the USA. Following that, pure corn oil comes into play, popping the kernels before the flavors are infused right into the core of the popcorn. They then seal it up and send it out without delay — while it’s still fresh. Do you want a 6 gallon tin, full of popcorn? The Factory are ready for you. So if you have a function that wants snacks laying on — or just want to stock up enough to cater for the next few movie nights — you know what you’re looking for. Plain, of course, and buttered — but they’re also on sale in white chocolate raspberry or banana cream pie.

If these are too expensive, or if you happen to be searching for something else, the Popcorn Factory also offers their appetizing treats in decorative tins and boxes. As with most gifts, you can have these decorated to reflect the occasion. They offer other customization options — a fitting image, your name, even a special missive.

If you know precisely what you’re after, you could always buy a healthy amount. Alternatively, samplers offer lesser quantities of multiple kinds so the recipient have a chance to try everything.

And if you require larger helpings, but want to keep that range of flavors, you might put a tower together. Although they offer premade towers, you can also determine the contents of each container in a custom stack. So there it is; such a variety of flavors, so many possibilities. And with their style they’re great gifts. You’ll find no better way to spread a little happiness across the U.S.

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January 12th, 2010 Prepare for the Movies with Popcorn

Just imagine, for just a moment, how huge one billion pounds of unpopped popcorn kernels must be — and when you consider that that is 2000’s domestic non-wholesale transactions alone, suddenly it becomes clear precisely how many of your acquaintances love their popcorn. The Popcorn Factory is America’s paramount provider of gourmet popcorn, tins of popcorn, popcorn balls, popcorn favors and delicious samplers, shipping more than 1.000.000 pounds of the delicious snack yearly. It’s even kosher certified.

Given their thirty years of experience, you can confidently order from them, no matter what flavor you’re craving. You require the best ingredients to prepare delicious popcorn, so the company trawls through the domestic grain to be sure of the very best. If you use corn oil, you can keep that flavor while you pop the kernels, allowing other flavorings to be added. They then seal it up and ship it out straight away — to make sure it stays fresh.

Have you ever wanted a six gallon tin, entirely filled with popcorn? They are ready for you. So if you’ve a business function to cater for — or simply want to get your friends and family enough to last through the next few movie nights — you know what to order. Plain, naturally, and buttered — but you can also find them offered flavored with banana cream pie or white chocolate raspberry. And if these don’t suit your needs? No need to worry — gift boxes are also on sale. These arrive ornamented to feature the celebration you chose such as a favorite sports team, “thank you”, “congratulations”, Christmas, and more. Not enough? You can always up the ante, having an amusing image, a apt message, or the recipient’s name added.

Plenty of shoppers know exactly what they want and purchase a large order. Those with more diverse tastes might investigate the assortments available.

However, if you want a larger variety, there’s an alternative — the tower. Though some towers are predesigned, you can also select the contents of each box in a given stack.

You can buy popcorn in almost any flavor you’re likely to want from the Popcorn Factory. With their style, too, they’re excellent presents. You won’t find a more enjoyable way to make someone smile across the USA.

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January 3rd, 2010 Great Tip-Offs Apropos Gift Baskets

A major online flower store has looked at the gift industry, creating a one-stop shop for presents be they to friends, family, or colleagues. And that solution? 1800Baskets.com. There’s more — their reach is worldwide, meaning that wherever your intended recipient is, you’ll be able to get their gift basket to them with no trouble.

Whatever the occasion — a special event or holiday — the 1800Baskets.com gift baskets overflow with lavish presents. A particular specialty is gourmet food. Meats, crackers, fruit, and cheeses are placed together with care to produce lip-smacking platters to please any palate. Take into account the wine which comes with the majority of baskets and you’ll soon understand where their distinction comes from. If you’d prefer something a little sweeter, they still have several baskets you could browse amongst as well. Sweetmeats come on their own or mixed with different snacks so friends, colleagues, and family can try to choose a favorite. Treats including cakes are equally scrumptious and generate some variety to enrich your gift basket.

Should your loved one prefer to minimize their intake of sugar while they nevertheless want a sweet treat, this basket store offers assorted fruits in selected containers and arrangements. These include hampers of fruit varieties, tropical baskets, and boxes of cheese & fruit, so there’s something for everyone. And if you’d prefer not to send edible gifts, you might think about a spa hamper topped up with bathing luxuries.

As with any gift seller, a sizable proportion of its output caters to the holiday season. A selection of cookies, treats, mints, trinkets, chocolates, and sundry other toothsome goodies are collected in beautiful packages. These vary in style, some having an austere feel, ideal for giving to work colleagues, or they might be in the form of fir trees and Santa Clauses for loved ones. What is done for Christmas can be done for every major holiday, in addition to more personal events — signing a contract, birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, and even closing a business deal. Sending their products to anywhere in the world, 1800Baskets.com confidently guarantee to send out only the very best. You can send a gift to anybody, and with 1800Baskets’ superb quality, and service, you will know that what you asked for is precisely what will actually arrive.

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