The Tea is served: remarkable women
Grab a cup and meet the remarkable women that inspired our specialty teas. Join in the conversation as we develop new recipes and flavors based on these women and HERstories.
Jovita Idár : Passion Fruit Black Tea – Passionate Readers Iced Tea
A prolific activist who never backed down from a fight that improved lives. Jovita Idar was a staunch defender of the first amendment, women’s rights and equality in education. Her father edited newspapers, and she was a professional journalist at the young age of...
Marie Curie: Radiance Herbal Blend
The first person to win two Nobel prizes. Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) lost her mother and eldest sister to typhus when she was just 10 years old. Her father was a teacher, and imbued all his children with a love of learning. Marie graduated high school at 15 with...
Grace O’Malley: Irish Mists
Grace O’Malley, the Pirate Queen of Ireland, who knew the coastal waters so well she could disappear at will, into the mists. Daughter of a County Mayo Chieftain and Sea Captain, she was discouraged from going to sea, so she cut her hair and dressed as a boy. ...
Junko Tabei: Seven Summits
Junko Tabei, the woman who scaled the tallest mountain on every continent. Junko Tabei was the crazy mountain woman who scaled Mount Everest and the Seven Summits - that’s the tallest mountain on every continent. She was the first woman to accomplish both...
Amalia Eriksson: MorMor Peppermint
The old saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, and often, that necessity is a mother’s need to care for her child. Biography notes: 📍1824-1923 born in Gränna Sweden.Orphaned at age 10, by a cholera outbreak, Amalia took work as a maid to support...
Jeanne Baret: Ginger Peach Beret
Not only a glass-ceiling-shattering explorer, but also a groundbreaking botanist. Jeanne Baret sailed around the world as part of the first French circumnavigation of the globe, led by admiral Louis-Antoine de Bougainville from 1766 to 1769. Her journey was not...
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