**Fundraise with tea4support.com — Ideal for Cash Strapped Schools**
December 25, 2012
Fundraising in the New Year can be easy with Tea4Support.com
Working with organizations, in particular school, Whisk and Spoon was surprised how much schools counted on the PTA to support essential programs for its students—it’s intimidating by the amount of money needed for each class. This year, we’ve created new teas for an exciting new fundraiser – Tea4support. Working with tea4support will help your organization avoid the dreaded Fundraising Fatigue.
Tea4Support can offer something more compelling and meaningful to your organization’s community!
Offering something more interesting and creative—something that parents would buy eagerly, not just out of a sense of duty, and that their friends and family would be thrilled to receive as gifts? It should be useful, easy, personalized to reflect the unique personality of each supporter—and definitely delicious, so you’ll want more!
Tea4support is a creative, community-based alternative to the usual school fundraiser. Teas are for the conscious consumer, products that advance the values parents strive to instill in their children. The tea4support selection of teas are healthy, good for you, and taste delicious. They support local communities while creating jobs in Pennsylvania!
Tea4support fundraising can provide the same kind of opportunity for the parents who choose to use this company. By banding together to support education programs beyond our own schools, communities can help even more kids at a time when budget cuts and deficits make this kind of assistance more important than ever in todays’s economy.
For this reason, Tea4support Fundraising applies part of its proceeds (beyond the money you raise for your own fundraiser) to help less fortunate U.S. communities. Right now and the near future Tea4support will be supporting SANDY relief projects
With tea4support.com up and running, nothing gives our company, Whisk and Spoon, greater pleasure than helping cash-strapped schools provide a rich education without compromises for every student. We hope you’ll join Tea4Support and make every fundraiser unique and memorable for your students, your family and friends, and your entire school community.Fundraising with Tea4support.com
1811 – OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Green Iced Tea with a twist!
April 16, 2012
Hello Green TEA Cocktails. Perhaps a bit premature; it is 83 degrees today – in April!
I’m still just thinking about getting ready for summer, creating new blends for a customer, and thinking about green tea – a lot.
So, if truth be told, I’m a recipe junkie looking for inspiration this Monday. It is true – I do love a good cookbook, but it’s the recipes that do me in… Way back when I lived off just off the Portobello Road, I went to the markets all the time looking for bargains. It’s time to dust it off this recipe for a ‘green tea punch”, I found in at the market.
Try this recipe with our Chinatown Green Passion Tea either in pyramid sachets or in our Tear and Pour™ Pouches. This green tea is refreshing and tropical made e with organic green tea, organic calendula/marigold petals, and organic flavors perfect for our Regent Cocktails.
A bit of history: Early 1796, saw English and American cooks were writing about using Green Tea with alcohol. Regents Cocktails was a popular drink at gatherings all during the year. It wasn’t until late 1884 that we find the first printed recipes referencing ‘black’ tea – and it took a world’s fair to make black tea famous when combined with lemons, sugar and iced.
For my personal taste, I’m not at all too keen on lots of sugar in this cocktail. Add with care, and taste each step of the way until punch is sweetened the way you like it. My assumption on all the sugar is purely speculative. I believe most household cooks were still experimenting with ingredients from the Far East as little was known about the subtleties of green tea. As most recipes advised cooks to ‘boil and stew’ the tea for long periods; it is this very technique that resulted in the need for LOTS of sugar and lemons to balance the astringent nature of green tea.
Purchase Green Tea 
from our Sponsored Fundraiser: Bike & Build
Make the recipe:
MAKES approximately 3 QUARTS
(contact us for kid-friendly version)
This tea-infused champagne cocktail makes an elegant centerpiece for any festive occasion this spring.
Arrack is a distilled alcoholic drink produced in South Asia. It is sold in stores throughout USA. I’ve listed some brands I’ve worked with over the years.
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar, water & pineapple to make a simple syrup.
1 cup cubed pineapple
2 lemons
2 oranges
1 Seville orange (also called bitter or sour orange)
2 Chinatown Green Passion Pyramid Sachets (or 1 Tear & Pour™ Chinatown Green green tea leaves)
1 cup brandy, preferably VSOP cognac
1⁄4 cup dark rum
1⁄4 cup arrack liquor, ( Batavia-Arrack, van Oosten, cachaça, VSOA
2 750-ml bottles Brut or rose sparkling wine or champagne, chilled
Garnish with star fruit and lime twists and a dash of grated nutmeg
1. MAKE YOUR OWN SIMPLE SYRUP: In a 1-qt. saucepan, combine 1⁄2 cup sugar and 1⁄4 cup water. Stir over high heat until sugar dissolves; transfer to a bowl along with pineapple. Allow to macerate in refrigerator for at least 8 hours to make a pineapple syrup. Strain and reserve; discard solids. EASY METHOD: add simple syrup with tropical or pineapple flavors.
2. Using a peeler, peel lemons, oranges, and seville orange, taking off as little white pith as possible. Transfer peels to a heavy bowl; reserve fruit. Add remaining sugar; use a muddler or a wooden spoon to vigorously crush sugar and peels together until sugar turns faintly yellow and slushy.
3. In a medium bowl, steep tea in 2 cups of hot water (150-160F )for 2 minutes. Strain tea over lemon and sugar mixture; stir until sugar dissolves. Juice reserved fruit into tea mixture. Strain through a sieve into another bowl; discard solids. Stir in pineapple syrup, brandy, rum, and arrack. Chill mixture. To serve, combine mixture and champagne in a punch bowl along with a large block of ice . Garnish with nutmeg
Do be a TEAZE!
May 22, 2011
Enjoy refreshing Iced Tea made with Premium Long Loose Gourmet Teas
Whisk and Spoon has the largest TEA collection available to distributors, wholesalers and gourmet retailers.
Whisk and Spoon’s specialty TEAS are organic, fair trade, bloom (flowering) along with hundreds of non-organic single estate and traditional teas.
Available in our easy Tear and Pour ™ pouches, Whisk and Spoon makes Premium Gourmet Teas available to distributors, wholesalers, gourmet café and retailers.
Whisk and Spoon Tear and Pour ™ Teas can be used with many brands of infusers and french presses. We have several pouch sizes available to work with 16, 20 and 32 ounce infusers.
Our premeasured pouches of long loose leaf teas make it easy and affordable to drink premium gourmet teas.Benefits:
Gourmet Retailers and Cafés now have a new product offering, without added any more expensive equipment. Stores and Cafés now becomes a destination for consumers of quality tea.
Features for Whisk and Spoon Tear and Pour ™ Teas
- Delivers superior and fresh flavor
- Your customers can easily try premium varietals and blended teas
- Provides a superior flavor to everyday tea bags
- Is a fun and engaging tea drinking experience for customers
- Eliminates expensive tea loss from Bulk Tea Inventories
- Saves time and money for training new staff
- Easy to use in busy café operations with demanding customers
Certified Organic Private-label teas flows onto menus! Chains are capitalizing on novelty factor, high margins
April 15, 2011
A growing number of hotels with dining chains are turning to Whisk and Spoon when getting Private Label Certified Organic Teas!
Over the past few months, Westin Hotel selected Whisk and Spoon for Certified Organic private-label signature White Tea. Joining the ranks of upscale spas and hoteliers that have been working with Whisk and Spoon, the Westin now joins a number of high-end independents and resturants that have Whisk and Spoon creating signature certified organic teas.
The emerging trend toward showcasing proprietary-label teas offers a number of advantages for chain operators, experts say, not the least of which is the ability to enjoy a higher profit margin on sales by the cup sales.
Showcasing Certified Organic private-label Teas enables companies to further differentiate their brands from the competition, they add.
“A lot of hotels have created private-label Teas,” said Angie Ecklels, a marketing manager who works with Whisk and Spoon private label tea innovation team. “Restaurants seem to be moving this way too. We are getting a lot of serious inquiries for our individually single cup Tear & Pour Teas™ that work with both infusers and presses. Also the organic pyramid tea bags with custom labeling remain popular.”
“It’s a unique, organic and kosher – a signature certified organic tea that’s special to your guests,” Eckels said. “Whisk and Spoon developed a signature tea for the Weston; and offers a simple, yet comprehensive program industry wide. Our Certified Organic PL Tea program is geared towards hotels, spas, resturants who are branding their companies with an organic tea and realizing profitable center. Many conventions centers are also utilizing our services for specialty events.
Eckels wanted a program that can give clients a unique offering – Whisk and Spoon responded to the need. Once a chain gets our program they realize the potential an move to our more sophisticated products offered by Whisk and Spoon. Our latest project involves working with the a chain spas located in Southern USA – we are creating a new customized line of Signature Spa Teas specifically for this chain.
“Working with such diverse clients like stadiums,Trade Shows, hotels, small business to wedding planners”, Angie stated, “Whisk and Spoon makes a lot of premium products for private label.” “It’s such a bonus to be manufacturing their organic premium introductory tea line in the Tri-State Area – which makes going local easy!
If you are a business and would like to hear about the Whisk and Spoon PL Certified Organic Tea Program – Please contact us 610 624 3680/sales@whiskandspoon.com We will be happy to discuss our program with you.
October, usually it’s Food & Recipes: Here’s 3 Great reasons to drink tea.
September 23, 2010
October, usually we post a new recipe with pork, but not this year. Right now Whisk and Spoon is getting ready for the October Pink’d campaign, new fundraiser ideas and the Major League Baseball Playoffs. We know it’s football season, however, here we are and the Phil’s are right back on top of the division… Wahoo! 
Just glad not to be headed out to Vegas next month, because Whisk and Spoon has a couple of weddings to attend in October – which are always a lot more fun than trade shows. We would love to receive your comments on the Pink’d logo – tell us your thought by leaving us a comment to post. Save the date! October is the month for purchasing more tea – this year two charities benefit from our sales.
3 great reasons to drink tea
Tea is Effective in Lowering BAD cholesterol.
Journal of Nutrition found that consuming 30 oz. of black tea daily – the fluid equivalent of 2.5 cans of soda – reduced Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL, or “bad”) cholesterol levels by more than 10 percent in mildly hypercholesterolemic adult study participants.
Tea is Heart Healthy
Studies published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association & American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) study participants who drank 3-4 cups of tea per found that incidence of myocardial infarction or heart attack decreased by 43 percent AND it was also found that tea significantly lower risk of death following a heart attack – a decrease of up to 44 percent.
Tea is good for you even if you are still smoking – Cough!
Tea was helpful in some protection of heavy smokers. The clinical intervention study found that heavy smokers who consumed four servings per day of green tea had 31% lower levels of 8-OHdG (a biomarker for oxidative damage to DNA) in white blood cells. Oxidative damage to DNA is one factor which increases cancer risk and the researchers suggest that a significant reduction of DNA damage found with green tea drinking may help reduce cancer risk in smokers.
A multitude of research studies point to drinking tea as a way to promote health. Tea is also being supported by more and more doctors as it can potentially reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease and certain types of cancer.
Tea is an ideal beverage — delicious, refreshing, soothing and healthful. A lot of people ask why Whisk and Spoon is so crazy about organic teas – our answer is always the same – unlike fruits and veggies – tea doesn’t get washed.
Can’t wait for your feedback on the Pink’d logo.
This month’s recipe: Diabetic Friendly Comfort Food – Mac N Cheese. For the recipe send an email whiskandspoon.com/contact/
