TEA-RRARIUM

This is a "hydroponic" drink - steeping fresh ginger, vanilla-cinnamon, dried Grecian flowering sage, dried kamias (a SlowFood Ark of Taste heritage fruit [very tart] from the Philippines), chai mix tea, whipped honey and sugar for two days. Decant to tea-rrariums, then chill!


The achieved flavor of this iced tea is marvelously complex it's like tasting an entire orchard at once, with the lemon and the mint specimens spraying like rain. The kick is a kickback pleasure of cold in the summer heat -

and you must assume a passion fruit is growing in your heart. Pour tea into freezer-frosted highballs, and watch the yachts go by...