{"id":11256,"date":"2012-10-24T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2012-10-24T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:02:25","slug":"the-art-of-making-a-good-cuppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/24\/the-art-of-making-a-good-cuppa\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of making a good cuppa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<dl id=\"\">\n<dt><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_11341\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Big_MS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11341\" title=\"Food_3_Waterloo Tea_Big_MS\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Big_MS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Big_MS.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Big_MS-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11341\" title=\"Food_3_Waterloo Tea_Big_MS\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Big_MS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Big_MS.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Big_MS-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterloo Tea houses between 65 and 70 different types of tea<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fancy yourself becoming a bit of a tea connoisseur or coffee expert? Waterloo Tea runs monthly barista courses and tea masterclasses on demand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The barista course, which teaches participants about the diverse range of coffee roasts, producers and suppliers and educates them in the various processing methods, accommodates up to four people and costs \u00a345pp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Small_MS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Food_3_Waterloo Tea_Small_MS\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Small_MS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Food_3_Waterloo Tea_Small_MS\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Food_3_Waterloo-Tea_Small_MS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waterloo Tea\u2019s tea masterclass covers a wide variety of teas, infusion times, brewing methods, and history. The class accommodates 6-10 people and costs \u00a325pp.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Director of Operations at Waterloo Tea, Nathaniel Williams, says, \u201cPeople are more educated about their food now and they want to be stimulated a bit more. They want to taste, feel, smell, pull things apart. The classes offer just that and involve a lot of tasting.\u201d<strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.9775601318106055\"><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fancy yourself becoming a bit of a tea connoisseur or coffee expert? Waterloo Tea runs monthly barista courses and tea masterclasses on demand. The barista course, which teaches participants about the diverse range of coffee roasts, producers and suppliers and educates them in the various processing methods, accommodates up to four people and costs \u00a345pp. Waterloo Tea\u2019s tea masterclass covers a wide variety of teas, infusion times, brewing methods, and history. The class accommodates 6-10 people and costs \u00a325pp. Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":11350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1319,1436,2197,275,2198,22,2199,2200,2201],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-barista","tag-cafe","tag-class","tag-coffee","tag-course","tag-food-2","tag-masterclass","tag-tea","tag-waterloo-tea"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The art of making a good cuppa - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/24\/the-art-of-making-a-good-cuppa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The art of making a good cuppa - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fancy yourself becoming a bit of a tea connoisseur or coffee expert? 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