Tea | 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards

View the winner of the 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards — Tea Category. HIBISCUS TEA BLEND Ambrosia Chocolate & Spices Nantucket, Massachusetts Claudia Butler sells organic spices and chocolates at her adorable shop on Nantucket. Her chocolates are exotic, flavored with ingredients such as green tea, curry, and coconut. Her teas are equally good. Her “Hibiscus […]

By Aimee Tucker

Oct 11 2013

Photo Credit : Michael Piazza

View the winner of the 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards — Tea Category.

HIBISCUS TEA BLEND Ambrosia Chocolate & Spices Nantucket, Massachusetts Claudia Butler sells organic spices and chocolates at her adorable shop on Nantucket. Her chocolates are exotic, flavored with ingredients such as green tea, curry, and coconut. Her teas are equally good. Her “Hibiscus Tea” combines flower petals and dried citrus, and for her “Greater Light Tea,” she harvests island-grown lemon verbena, elderflower, and beach-rose petals to produce a tart and floral sipper that’s equally good hot or cold. Suggested Retail Price: $13 per bag Where to Find It: Ambrosia shop on Nantucket and online at ambrosianantucket.com

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Aimee Tucker is Yankee Magazine’s Home Editor and the Senior Digital Editor of NewEngland.com. A lifelong New Englander and Yankee contributor since 2010, Aimee has written columns devoted to history, foliage, retro food, and architecture, and regularly shares her experiences in New England travel, home, and gardening. Her most memorable Yankee experiences to date include meeting Stephen King, singing along to a James Taylor Fourth of July concert at Tanglewood, and taking to the skies in the Hood blimp for an open-air tour of the Massachusetts coastline.

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