{"id":662,"date":"2009-01-28T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/tea\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-01-28T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T17:02:07","slug":"zorbas-ceylon-tea-blend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/zorbas-ceylon-tea-blend\/","title":{"rendered":"Zorba&#8217;s Ceylon Tea Blend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could spend all day with my nose stuck in this custom blend from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoeniciafoods.com\/\">Phonecia&#8217;s Mediterranean grocery store<\/a>. The scent is just heavenly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/teazorba1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-142\" title=\"teazorba1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/teazorba1-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoeniciafoods.com\/tea.html\">Zorba&#8217;s Ceylon Tea Blend<\/a> includes ceylon (black) tea and spices (allspice, red peppercorns, cinnamon bark). There were no suggestion as to brewing time, so I chose to bring water to a full roiling boil, then steep 2 level teaspoons for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicoftea.com\/templates\/detail.asp?navID=100\">teapot<\/a> for 2 minutes. The brewed tea turned out a lovely, dark shade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/teazorba2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-146\" title=\"teazorba2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/teazorba2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though this tea has a very rich and spicy scent, the actual brewed tea was quite a bit milder than I expected. Very light-bodied, the flavor was very subtle, with the cinnamon and allspice at the fore and nothing bitter at all. I think this worked best with quite a bit of milk and sugar &#8211; it felt almost like a chai tea then. I wouldn&#8217;t recommend a second or third steeping though &#8211; I could barely taste the flavor of the tea by then.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a lovely tea for those days when you&#8217;re just not feeling your best. The scent and lightly spiced flavor are very comforting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could spend all day with my nose stuck in this custom blend from Phonecia&#8217;s Mediterranean grocery store. The scent is just heavenly. Zorba&#8217;s Ceylon Tea Blend includes ceylon (black) tea and spices (allspice, red peppercorns, cinnamon bark). There were no suggestion as to brewing time, so I chose to bring water to a full &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/zorbas-ceylon-tea-blend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zorba&#8217;s Ceylon Tea Blend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,144],"tags":[67,166,171,173,215,233],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceylon","category-tasting","tag-allspice","tag-black-tea","tag-ceylon","tag-cinnamon","tag-medditeranean","tag-pepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faziarizvi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}