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Luxury Organic Ti Kuanyin Slimming Oolong Loose Leaf Tea. (Original Product #B00BJVIZ6K) A refreshing tea with slimming benefits. This oolong tea is the highest quality of the oolongs. A bit pricy, but the taste and flavor is well worth it for the slimming properties. Floral-like orchid notes with a smooth and haunting finish. An excellent tea which has no calories when consumed without milk or sugar. Ingredients From: China Region(s): Fujian Province Shipping Port(s): Fuzhou Grade(s): Ti Kuan Yin Special Growing Altitudes: 1500 – 4900 feet above sea level Manufacture Type(s): Semi fermented, Traditional process, Small batch crafted and formed.. Excellent diet tea, organic diet tea, diet oolong tea, slimming tea, skinny girl type tea, dieters tea, oolong tea

Ti Ti Kuanyin Slimming Oolong – Original Flavor; Both a slimming and great tasting tea with floral like orchid notes and a smooth finish. Original flavor tea with awesome slimming benefits. Oolong has some very unique qualities. It helps to speed up your metabolism and can help with digestion. This oolong tea is the highest quality of the oolongs. A bit pricy, but the taste and flavor is well worth it. As for the slimming properties, it is a Chinese custom to drink this tea with meals in order to feel sated and refreshed without over indulging in food. Slimming Oolong – both a slimming and great tasting tea with floral like orchid notes and a smooth finish. An excellent tea with awesome slimming benefits.

The Little Coffee Know-It-All: A Miscellany for growing, roasting, and brewing, uncompromising and unapologetic

If they call you a know-it-all, well, you’ve got the last laugh – the best coffee in town!So you think you know your coffee? Consider this book your advanced degree in all things java. You may think you know the how and why of roasting and brewing, but you nerds know nothing yet. This goes even further into everyone’s favorite beverage. With even deeper history, techniques, science, and tasting guides than some of the other guides, you’re going to obsess over this book for the ultimate coffee lover. The Little Coffee Know-It-All is not for the faint of heart.What’s the best way to store coffee and why? How do you brew the perfect cup of joe? What’s the premium coffee bean in the world? What’s the roast with the most? What’s the real reason to use a siphon coffee maker? In The Little Coffee Know-It-All, Shawn Steiman, Hawaii’s own “Doctor Coffee,” answers these questions and more in a fun, playful but scientifically rigorous manner. If you are serious about your coffee, this book is the perfect companion to your journey from coffee drinker to a being a coffee know-it-all.

The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes

One of the country’s most celebrated roasters explains how to choose, brew, and enjoy the new breed of artisan coffees at home, along with 40 inventive recipes that incorporate coffee or taste good with a cup.Coffee is experiencing a renaissance and Blue Bottle Coffee Company has quickly become one of America’s most celebrated roasters. Famous for its complex and flavorful coffees, Blue Bottle delights its devoted patrons with exquisite pour-overs, delicious espressi, and specialized brewing methods. Yet as coffee production becomes more sophisticated with specialized extraction techniques and Japanese coffee gadgets, the new artisan coffees can seem out of reach. The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee explains this newworld from farm to cup, exploring the bounty of beans available and the intricate steps that go into sourcing raw coffee from around the globe. Blue Bottle founder James Freeman coaches you through brewing the perfect cup ofcoffee, using methods as diverse as French press, nel drip, siphon, and more to produce the best flavor. For coffee lovers who want to roll up their sleeves and go deeper, Freeman explains step by step how to roast beans at home using standard kitchen tools—just like he did when starting out. The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee also introduces a home technique for cupping, the industry method of tasting coffees for quality control, so you can hone your taste and share your meticulously roasted coffee with friends. Rounding out the book are more than thirty inventive recipes from Blue Bottle pastry chef and former Miette bakery owner Caitlin Freeman thatincorporate coffee or just taste particularly good with coffee, such as Saffron Vanilla Snickerdoodles, Stout Coffee Cake with Pecan-Caraway Streusel, Affogato with Smoky Almond Ice Cream, Coffee Panna Cotta, and more. With more than one hundred stunning photographs showing coffee’s journey from just-harvested cherry to perfect drink, this distinctive and deep guide to the new breed of amazing coffees from one of the top artisan coffee makers will change the way you think about—and drink—coffee.