Tea Recipes

most grateful for Picwick Tea for sharing these great recipes :


Persian Tea

Ingredients:
• Teabags
• 80 grams sugar
• Peach slices
• Orange segments
• Rum
Set fresh water to boil (3-5 minutes). Add boiled water to tea and let stand 5 minutes. Remove teabags. Stir sugar into the tea and let the mixture cool to room temperature.

Prepare tall tea glasses with peach slices, orange segments and a splash of rum. Top off with ice cubes. Add tea.

Russian tea
Ingredients:
• Teabags
• Tablespoonshoney
• Cloves
• 1/3 cinnamon stick
• Juice of one lemon and 2 oranges
In a teapot, add a small amount of hot water a pot, covering the bottom. Add the honey, cloves and cinnamon stick. Heat for 7 minutes. Add the teabags and boiled water. Let the tea stand 5 minutes. While stirring, add the lemon and orange juice. Pour this strong, flavourful drink through a sieve and into a glass. Serve immediately.

Orange Juice Tea
Ingredients:
- 3 oranges
- Half cinnamon stick
- 4 cloves
- 3 tablespoons loose tea or 3 teabags

Place the 4 cloves into a well-cleaned orange. Add the orange and the half cinnamon stick to one litre of water and boil. Let stand for 15 minutes. Sieve the water and add 3 tablespoons (12 grams) of loose tea in a cup-sized tea-strainer, or add three teabags, and let stand 5 minutes. Remove the tea strainer or teabags.

Welcoming drink
Mix with Rooibos, with strawberries (app. 1 litre)
Ingredients:
• 3 Rooibos tea bags
• 1 litre of boiling water
• 250 g fresh (or defrosted) strawberries
• Cane sugar to your taste
• Sparkling wine like, for example, Moscato d’Asti
Boil the water and let it cool for a couple of minutes. Then, mix it with tea, cane sugar and strawberries which are lightly mashed in the jug with a spoon. The tea should draw for at least 30 minutes. Cool down and add sparkling wine to your taste. To be served in a bowl or glass jug.
African Cooler
Spicy drink for cosiness (app. 2 litres)
Ingredients:
• 3 Rooibos tea bags
• 0.5 litre of water
• 1 stick of cinnamon
• A couple of cloves
• A bit of nutmeg
• 1.5 litres of orange juice
Boil the tea together with the spices for ten minutes and let it cool. Add orange juice and serve it with ice cubes in a bowl or a jug.

Eradicating Hunger

Hunger,

That one word is the doom of human being. Being in Hunger meaning you are in the lowest pit possible. Even greater than contagious diseases the number of people died due to hunger.

can we eradicate it ?

in our lifetime?

the answer might be optimistically yes or pessimistically no.

if we chose yes, it means either we put total belief in our so called world leaders to tackle with this problem or we already strating something promising to eradicate -well, at least reduce the possibility of this world fallen to hunger.

if we chose no, then, we're either fatalistic or realistic (depends on the way you see it) .

but truly, realistically, can we eradicate hunger?

not due to lack of effort, i say. Let's see....

there's one very official thing officiate by UN : The Secretary General's Task Force On The global Food Security Crisis.

Chaired by the Secretary-General, the Task Force brings together the Heads of UN specialized agencies, funds and programmes, Bretton Woods institutions and relevant parts of the UN Secretariat. FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf is the Vice-Chairman of the Task Force. The Secretary-General appointed UN Assistant Secretary-General David Nabarro as Task Force Coordinator.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at the 2008 Food Summit in Rome

(UN photo/Mark Garten)

• Secretary-General, Chairman
• Jacques Diouf, Vice-Chairman, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Kanayo Nwanze, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Juan Somavia, International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Cheick Sidi Diarra, UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS)
• Supachai Panitchpakdi, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Achim Steiner, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
• António Guterres, Office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• Ann M. Veneman, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
• Josette Sheeran, World Food Programme (WFP)
• Margaret Chan, World Health Organization (WHO)
• Robert Zoellick, World Bank
• Pascal Lamy, World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Sha Zukang, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
• B. Lynn Pascoe, Department of Political Affairs (DPA)
• Kiyotaka Akasaka, Department of Public Information (DPI)
• Alain Le Roy, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
• John Holmes, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• Navanethem Pillay, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• David Nabarro, Task Force Coordinator
• Angel Gurría, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

now, is not that looks convincing ?

then there are these :

USEFUL LINKS

• Global Food Security Crisis
• National basic food prices - data and analysis tool (Food and Agriculture Organization)
• Health Impacts of the Global Food Security Crisis (World Health Organization)
• UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Relief Web
• Right to Food
• IRIN
• Economic and Social Council
• Special Meeting of ECOSOC on Global Food Crisis - New York (20 May 2008)
• UN News Centre
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• UN Economic and Social Development
• Food crisis: Scarcity amid plenty (DESA News, vol. 12, No. 5)

this :

the analysis provided by FAO :http://www.fao.org/economic/es-policybriefs/briefs-detail/en/?no_cache=1&uid=48900

and yearly Food World Day, World Economic Meeting, etc, etc

why then, after (eventhough there're) those efforts, world still legshacked by hunger?

why ?

why ?

is it enough to let the people (whomever they are) as one of my friend said to tackle hunger? are we not also responsible ? we are part of this world aren't we ?

we also threatened by hunger aren't we ? should we let "situation" run us down ? let the show run without us ? let our big family suffers? just because we don't feel like it is our job to do ?just because we don't feel it is our place? just like we feel like we are not "big" enough ?

I don't think so.

I believe each and every small efforts are being responsible to the running of this world. If our world leaders and captains of industry just fail to commit all resources for the goodness of all , then maybe we should use every small resources we had for the sake of humanity. and if we try one small step at a time, maybe we can eradicate hunger one day.

My friends, my sisters and brothers in training, let's start the step ?

Love you.