Tonight, we were able to go out to dinner as a family - a very rare treat - with a gift card to a local vegan restaurant from very good and kind friends. We had to wait for a long while for a table, though it's Tuesday, and the restaurant is relatively new. Sensing our disappointment, the server offered us Jasmine tea.
Oh wow. Talk about deja vu- one sniff (I like to smell stuff) and I was brought to Nirvana. I remembered this particular smell of jasmine tea from a small tin of it that we were given as a gift. Funny thing is, that tin sat on our shelf for ages. One day, we opened it for something warm to drink, and I was whisked away to some far off exotic place. Being such a small tin, we drank through it pretty quickly. I then set about trying to find that perfect jasmine aroma and flavor, looking in all the tea shops in Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding towns. Everything I found let me down - not as floral, not as vanilla-y, just not right.
Until tonight.
Oh wow - I'll say it again. We finally found it. The brand is Irie, distributed out of Providence, Rhode Island. And the best part? It's organic!
