Sitar maestero Nishat Khan, winner of Congressional award for his contributions to music, will be playing at the Princeton University at Richardson Auditorium. The details of the show are as follows:

Few tickets remain, so if you are interested in being regaled with classical Indian music on Sitar, call Richardson Box office at 609-258-5000.

You can find more info on Nishat Khan here.

Recently, our Jaya teas emails have come under spam attack (or so it seems, since we have received a lot of undelivered emails that were never sent out). Hence we have decided to discontinue our “info at jayateas”, “madhulika at jayateas”, and “sunil at jayateas” email accounts.

Please make a note of our new email account which is . Unfortunately, due to the email harvesting programs used by spammers, we are unable to give you the ability to click on the email address and write an email. So for now, just copy the email address on a piece of paper and type it into your favorite email program.

Check out our specials page. Our flavored teas are all on sale, and so is the ever popular green tea. Thurbo First Flush with its beautiful floral aroma, and Giddapahar (Eagles Craig) First flush are both on sale as well.

Just click here for the specials page, and you will find a long list of teas that are on sale.

Clotilde, of Chocolate & Zucchini has a wonderful write up about La Paume, a sour dough bread created by Alan Passard, a chef from a restaurant in Paris. I encourage you to read that article because it speaks to the richness of life folks in France are able to experience. I wrote a comment on her website which I am duplicating here because I feel if there is one thing that is still lacking in US, it is good quality bread. Don;t get me wrong, things are indeed getting better. But honestly bread is such a basic necessity that each town or village should be able to support a small bakery. Yet, there are no good bakeries around!! Enuough said. Here is my comment…

Bread is my favorite, and sourdough bread is my favorite among breads. So when I read about La Paume, my mouth started watering. Its almost impossible to get good sourdough bread here in Princeton. We have a wonderful little bakery in town called Witherspoon Bakery which bakes some delicous breads, but their sourdough breads are not the best.

I have tried to bake sourdough bread myself in my house, but lacking a decent oven, my breads always turnout slightly discolored pale cousins of what you have shown here. Alas, I wish I had access to a bread like the one described here! Or at least a recepie for baking something like this at home.