Laundry: time for contemplation. Nothing goes better with contemplation than tea, though perhaps it's the other way around -- does tea promote contemplation?
Tea, apparently, promotes many things, packed as it is with antioxidants. Sipping my cup of smoky Lapsang Souchong from Farley's as the clothes tumbled in their dryers, I could feel the health surging through me.
Or could I? The report last week from the San Francisco Chronicle touted tea as one of nature's "superfoods" -- a buzzword sure to sweeten many lips this year.
But while I was ready to leap to action in a superfood sort of way -- some of my favorite foods are super, including dark chocolate, avocados, and spinach -- science does not subscribe so readily to food trends.