Tea

Mary Beard is everybody’s favourite poster girl. A classics don from Cambridge, Beard is revered for rescuing Roman history from a dusty discipline, elevating it to a primer on personality and power. Beard is erudite and entertaining; she writes expansively on ancient Rome – everything from laughter to shoes to sex in the swimming pool.A good place to start reading Mary Beard is It’s a Don’s Life. This memoir began as a blog on her life as a don (a lecturer) in Cambridge. I found it zippy and sparkly; it talks about…

Actress-singer Hilary Duff threw an elegant tea party for her daughters Mae James, Banks Violet, and 98 of their friends. The party featured costumes and treats. Hilary took to Instagram to share the glimpses from the bash. She wrote in the caption, "Mission: annual Montessori tea party…… to me and all the moms who made this lit for 98 little nuggets - we destroyed and how tired are you still? (sic),” reports ‘People’ magazine. The carousel post began with a sweet photo of Mae wearing a…

It looks like Tom Cruise has settled very nicely into his new life in London, where the quintessentially American movie star is said to host Sunday tea parties, hang out with Prince William at swanky galas and has reportedly launched a serious romance with one of the Russian socialites whose extravagant lifestyles have helped turn the British capital into “Londongrad.” Filming the latest installments of his “Mission: Impossible” franchise brought the Cruise to the U.K., where he found “a place to call home” in London, a…

Research indicates that the quality of tea is not solely dependent on the variety of tea plants but also on the microbes present on their roots. Modifying these microbial communities has been shown to significantly improve tea quality by enhancing amino acid content, suggesting a new avenue for agricultural improvement that could extend beyond tea to other crops.You’d think the complex flavor in a quality cup of tea would depend mainly on the tea varieties used to make it. However, recent research published in the journal…

Tom Cruise is still busy making Mission: Impossible 8, which sadly means he won’t have any films on the 2024 movie schedule. Of course, being the world-renowned superstar that he is, he's still popping up in the news from time to time. The latest instance of that happening has some sources spilling the tea on Cruise literally serving that very beverage, as the star of some of the best action movies has reportedly been throwing tea parties in London.Allegedly, it's even where the Minority Report star met his new…

While deployed, my wife remained at our home in Texas. The A/C broke in the middle of summer. They told her that the temperature wasn't hot enough to constitute a repair. When she showed them pictures of the thermostat reading over 100 degrees indoor they finally said that they would send a repairman but that I needed to be there because I was the primary name on the lease although she had power of attorney. I threatened to sue. A/C was eventually Jerry-rigged (the repair guy told her that he was paid to do the bare…

San Francisco, Puerto Rico, January 29th, 2024, Chainwire The tea Protocol has announced the launch of its highly anticipated Incentivized Testnet on February 21st, 2024. The tea Protocol seamlessly bridges Web2 open-source codebases to Web3 to enhance their sustainability and provide fair rewards to open-source developers. Additionally, tea provides developers access to its incentivized community of vulnerability reporters and is cross-compatible with major package managers including Homebrew, npm, APT,…

Sibling relationships can be difficult to navigate in bands, as evinced by numerous bands, including your own. How do you balance your relationship as brothers and bandmates? somecandytalking Jim Reid (vocals, guitar): If I’ve learned anything, it’s how to deal with my brother, and he’s the same. We used to have invisible lines we didn’t cross, but in the 90s we couldn’t stand each other. I’m eternally grateful that most of the incidents were before smartphones, so they’re not on YouTube. One night when we were DJing, we…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Kathy Hilton has been many things to many people: sister, mother, business woman, philanthropist and television personality. But the Beverly Hills icon is adding “leading lady” to the list with the launch of a new campaign for Smirnoff Ice Smash Tea. Hilton takes center stage as the star of the ‘Smash Tea Partay: A Smirnoff Ice Musical.” A new campaign centered…

No matter how much or how little experience we have in the kitchen, many of us have at least a handful of culinary secrets. It might be as simple as remembering to season our food well. Or how adding just a bit of butter or garlic can make a huge difference to the flavor profile of a dish. The more we’re willing to experiment, the more we can learn. The friendly everyday cooks of the popular r/Cooking subreddit spilled the beans about the fancy ingredients that they’ve personally found to be extremely worth the…