
All over Paris I kept seeing Japanese ironware tea pots (une théière japonaise de forme plate) called TETSUBIN, in specialty tea shops, in chocolate shops. These red enamel tea tins are inside La Bonbonnière de la Trinité in the 9ème. Note those iron tea pots sitting on top of the tins...






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i like the mixt between la représentation (your painting) and la photo réaliste (the teapot or anything)
I just love those teapots, they are so nice to look at and they keep the tea warm for a long time. Also since they are so heavy the lid doesn't fall off when you pour the tea, so no cup shattering accidents
I never thought of the lid aspect La Page :) Japanese things are very well designed.And I do think these teapots are more appreciated in France than here...but so is the ritual of drinking tea perhaps.
Even Tetubins look stylish in Paris !!
C x
Yes coco...EVERYTHING does seem more stylish in Paris! I'd seen these teapots in New York before I'd left & thought Ho Hum...then I saw them in Paris and I was mad to get one.
I would make a fresh mint tea or chamomile tea.
C x
I was given a lovely unglazed Japanese teapot - a beautiful reddish brown - and told NEVER ever to wash it with soap. Instead, it should be used only to brew one type of tea - darjeelin-- white silver needle-- whatever, just so long as the same type of tea is the only one brewed in the pot, and then rinsed with water. The idea is that the pot will take on and amplify the characteristics of the chosen tea in time....a notion I found very sympatico with "wok hay" or the flavor imparted by the wok itself which must never be cleaned with soap and water. I remained faithful to my darljeeling brew for many years, but recently have taken the death-defying plunge and brewed my silver needle tea in the pot! I live on borrowed time till the teapot gods find me out!
Just fabulous teapots!
Just fabulous reading!
I love it!
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