What’s Your Cup of Tea?

Edible Madison, December 3, 2016

When the dark comes early and cold settles in, you can curse the winter and bide your time until spring, or you can choose to boil some water and pour yourself a cup of tea, embracing the quiet season that brings us an opportunity to slow down. It’s winter in Wisconsin, take it or leave it. If you are reading this, it’s likely you are sticking it out,so we’ve collected some restorative herbal teas found right here in Southern Wisconsin to keep you warm all winter long.

Before we begin, a disclaimer: The term “herbal tea” is a bit of a misnomer. Also referred to as “tisanes,” herbal teas are not true teas because they don’t contain the tea leaf, but are still prepared like a tea. If you want to sound really knowledgeable at the tea house, go ahead and throw around the word tisane, but for the purposes of this article, we’ll call it herbal tea.