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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 […]

Three transparent bags containing different types of dried herbs and flowers, each labeled with tags, are displayed on a white background. Some dried flower petals are scattered near the bags.

Photo Credit: Michael Piazza
View the winner of the 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards — Tea Category.
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Photo Credit: Michael Piazza
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

Aimee Tucker

Aimee Tucker is Yankee’s senior digital editor. 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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