What The Tea Party Wants
Sen.-elect KONNI BURTON, R-Fort Worth; state Sen.-elect PAUL BETTENCOURT, R-Houston; state Rep. JONATHAN STICKLAND, R-Bedford; state Rep. JEFF LEACH, R-Plano; and state Rep.
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Tea is taken very seriously in some parts of the world. Tea times are very important as well and will tell you what type of tea and tea foods to expect.
Cream tea is served in the afternoon and consist of tea and scones with some clotted cream, lemon curd and/or jam. And of course tea.
Two counties hold the Cream Tea close to their hearts, both believing this light meal originated within their borders yet differing in the manner the scones should be eaten. The Devonshire Tea or Devon Cream Tea hails from the county of Devon, where they prefer to split their scones into two halves, spread each half with clotted cream, and top each half with strawberry jam. Clotted cream and strawberry jam are essential elements of Devons variation.
Cornwall serves a Cornish Cream Tea by spreading strawberry jam on the scone first and then topping it with Cornish clotted cream. Whichever variation you may prefer, the love for the combination of tea, scones, clotted cream, and jam is one proven to be near and dear to the people of not only Devon and Cornwall but all who encounter this sweet treat! (1)
Add fresh strawberries to cream tea and you have strawberry tea. Alternately, if you add more sweets to cream tea, you get light tea(6)
Afternoon tea is served around 4 pm.
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NASHVILLE Traditionally an insiders affair, the contest for the Tennessee state Houses most powerful post the speakership has been anything but that this year.
With Rep. Rick Womick, R-Rockvale, challenging Republican Speaker Beth Harwell in Wednesdays GOP Caucus election, various tea party groups, anti-Common Core activists and the Tennessee Firearms Association have been bombarding Republican representatives with emails and phone calls in support of Womick.
Just last week, the Tennessee Republican Assembly and the heads of the Chattanooga and Nashville tea parties entered the fray, praising Womick as a true patriot and true conservative and arguing that his elevation to speaker would further the true intention of Tennessee voters as expressed in the recent elections.
The Coalition believes that this level of support should be reflected by a Speaker as conservative as the voters who have made this possible, the group said in its news release.
Efforts to reach Chattanooga Tea Party President Mark West on Monday were unsuccessful.
Harwell is seen as having the upper hand in the 73-member GOP Caucus contest as she seeks a third two-year term. Since Democrats have only 26 seats, the real race is among Republicans.
Womick helped lead a House rebellion last legislative session against Common Core standards and has denounced Republican Gov. Bill Haslam as a self-serving autocrat.
The sometimes-fiery Womick also has attacked now-departing Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman. And he has accused Haslams chief of staff, Mark Cate, of having tried unsuccessfully to recruit GOP candidates to run against him in his House district primary last summer.
That is totally crazy, Cate said in an interview. I had no involvement at all. This is crazy. I have no idea why hes picked us out, but its totally untrue.
Womick has also accused Harwell of having stood by and watched as Cate and other Haslam staffers targeted five other Republican incumbents through a newly created political action committee called Advance PAC.
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A YouTube video of a Texas professor comparing the rise of the tea party in the United States to the rise of the Nazi Party in 1930s Germany has drawn criticism from conservatives online. In the video, filmed during a Nov. 17 lecture, Blake Armstrong psychology professor at South Texas College in McAllen said, "In 1931, which was really interesting, the Nazis people are kind of tired of them. They've been around since 1920, 11 years now, they've won seats they're like the tea party. Look, that's such a good example. Don't tell anybody I said that, though. 'The tea party are like the Nazis.'"
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The Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773, was more than just a protest against British taxes. It was a protest against terrible tea, too.
The quality of the tea sent to the Colonies was awful, said Evan OBrien, creative director of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, which hosts its annual re-enactment Tuesday. High-quality tea went to the citizens of England. Americans got second-rate tea.
The Sons of Liberty tossed 46 tons of tea, valued at nearly $1 million in todays money, over the sides of the Beaver, Dartmouth and Eleanor. That tea was hand-picked in China in 1770 and 1771 two to three years before the protest.
The leaves were packed tightly into crates, often compressed with the feet of its human harvesters, moved down mountains and rivers, and shipped by the East India Company around the globe to London warehouses. There the tea destined for ruin in Boston Harbor sat and went stale even before the British cargo ships set sail for America in October 1773.
America became a coffee-drinking nation exactly as a reaction to what happened that night, said Cynthia Gold, the tea sommelier at LEspalier in the Back Bay. The issues that sparked the Tea Party were complex, she said, but the stale, musty quality of tea was another slap in the face to Americans. It also inspired a robust tea-smuggling trade.
Americans still drink much more coffee than tea. But the United States is in the midst of a tea revival, while Bostons culinary community puts tea front and center this week in anticipation of the 241st anniversary of the Tea Party.
LEspalier hosts a five-course dinner Sunday night featuring all five varieties of black and green teas that were hurled into the water in 1773. Among other dishes and drinks, guests get a chance to sample fish house punch, a potent period cocktail made with freshly brewed Chinese tea.
A pair of high-profile new restaurants, meanwhile, made tea a centerpiece of their menus this year.
Bastille Kitchen in Fort Point opened in July a block from the Tea Party Ships & Museum. It serves tea-smoked mussels, tea-brined lamb shank, compound herb butter sprinkled with tea-smoked salt and Earl Grey tea creme caramel.
Those dishes are a tribute to the history that unfolded right down the street, said Bastille Kitchen executive chef Adam Kube.
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