| Steeped with great Canadian tea
There's no real mystery as to why the Mysterious Rose wows at first sip. Leon Li of Ten Ren Tea skilfully slips a multitude of harmonious flavours into his iced tea creation – soaking, straining and blending blueberries, plums, simple syrup, brown sugar syrup and Taiwanese oolong tea with ice. He deftly shapes a thin slice of red apple into a flower and sets it afloat on the thick, dusty rose elixir, alongside a plump bubble tea straw. "This is the drink of all drinks," Brendan Waye of the Great Canadian Tea Steep-off tells a small but rapt audience Monday at the Canadian Coffee & Tea Show at the Toronto Congress Centre. "This should be framed, not drunk." But drink it we must (we being the steep-off judges), and the sensory memory of this vibrant and complex creation lingers.
Curing Jet Lag
Combat jet lag with simple preventive measures The dictionary defines "jet lag" as "a temporary disruption of the body's normal biological rhythms after high-speed air travel through several time zones." OK, this isn't anything we haven't heard or experienced before, right? So, from a medical standpoint, what is jet lag? "Circadian rhythms" are our bodies' natural time clock. They run on a 24-hour basis, like the days. If you travel to Arizona from Los Angeles, you're OK. Jet lag doesn't really kick in. But as you approach the rest of the country, and as the time change grows, your body's timer stays either ahead or behind. how do we combat this? Find out the time change ahead of time. Try to adjust your sleep habits about a week before you leave. Start by going to bed either a half-hour earlier or later, and work up.
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