Feed the Kitty

[gwyn]

OMG, Cute Overload posted a YouTube copy of my favorite cartoon ever, Warner Bros.' Feed the Kitty. It's hysterical, and I never watch it but I laugh and laugh, especially when Marc Anthony, the dog who falls in love with the little kitten, sits there grabbing his ankles and rocking back and forth, sobbing uncontrollably. Oh, man, I adore this cartoon. It's here and you should go watch it if you've never seen it before. I think it's even better than What's Opera, Doc?

gattagrigia and hubby are back from Paris, where they picked me up a tin of Mariage Freres' Sakura green tea for 2008. If you've never tried Mariage Freres teas, you should. I am a tea fanatic, and I am amazed at how long I suffered without experiencing this tea. They've been making their classic black tin blends since 1854, though they've been hard to get in this country for a long time. Mariage Freres has a web site you can now order from, but it's probably the most ghastly design I've ever come across, on any browser. (In fact, talkingsock, this would make you laugh and laugh.)

The company has made it difficult to order their basic line here -- you have to call the main distributor because they haven't let them make the teas available online any other way than their own site. But if you're lucky, there may be a store in your city you can find them; it's worth looking around. In Seattle, they're carried by Watson-Kennedy. After I tried some of the divine Montagne d'Or, which has flower petals and a fruity infusion to create this heavenly fruity-flowery black tea that is so mild and softly sweet you don't need any extra sweetener, I couldn't go back to other teas. Nothing is as good! Their blacks are incredibly well-blended, no bitterness, even in the darker leaves. The greens are soft, not grassy or sharp at all like cheaper greens can be. I have yet to try the white blends, because I haven't seen any here on the shelves, but maybe if I can ever navigate that crazy online store, I'll order some in the future. Whites can often taste like hay, so I'll be interested to see how theirs taste.

They're expensive, but worth every penny if you love a good cuppa.

Comments

[torra.livejournal.com]

Watson-Kennedy? Is that the tea shop in the Market? It's the only one I can think of off the top of my head...

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yes, W-K is in the Market next to the Inn, and Campagne. They're sort of tucked away in a little courtyard. There is also a larger one down on 1st and like Madison or something, and they carry more of the Mariage Freres line than the Market one does. I've never been to the one in Kirkland, though, so I don't know how much of the line they carry at that location.