The Simpson and Vail website lists recipes on the detail pages for a lot of our teas and tisanes – and we’re adding more all the time.  These recipes are ones we’ve either crafted ourselves or ones we’ve found online and in cookbooks. Today I decided to try a dressing that appears in the book Culinary Tea by Cynthia Gold and Lise Stern.  The recipe is a Sesame-Ginger Garlic Dressing using green tea.  On our website we list it under Young Hyson China green tea but today I made it with Japanese Green Sencha Tea. The directions were easy to follow and the dressing tastes amazing!  The kitchen smells of toasted sesame seeds and toasted tea leaves – Yum!  I have some tofu marinating in it as we “speak”, which  […]

My name is Cyndi Harron, one of the family members here at Simpson and Vail.  On behalf of my family, I wanted to welcome you here to our new loose tea blog. I thought I’d give you a little introduction to our family run tea business.  In the 70’s my parents, Joan & Jim, purchased Simpson & Vail, which was located, at that time, on Park Place in New York City.  Pretty soon after they purchased it, my father was asked to join a friend running a textile company, which left Mom to learn and operate Simpson and Vail. She did an outstanding job!  I have 3 brothers and in the summers and school holidays my parents roped all of us into working for them.  It was exciting traveling […]