There are plenty of targets left: such as Honest Tea, a new company that makes naturally sweetened tea with ingredients bought from American Indians, thus combining health with ethics.

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But a sideline, packing and selling bags containing tea and exotic ingredients, saved them.

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But before partaking of the deep-green elixirs, guests are offered tea sweets known as wagashi: beautiful, bite-size confections made with ingredients ranging from red bean paste to green tea itself.

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Since Marcolini began making single estate chocs, combining them with ingredients like Earl Grey tea, that fashion has swept through the chocolate making business.

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The ingredients include Courvoisier cognac, Japanese sencha tea and an oven-baked tarantula and scorpion.

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Sometimes Mr. Smith tastes the ingredients individually and then mixes them with spoonfuls of tea, paying attention to how the look and smell changes when the tea is steeped, or infused in water.

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You'll read about the Santa Cruz fishermen who caught Dave's Fancy Chinook King Salmon by hook and line, the family farm that grew the ingredients in the Lundberg honey nut rice cakes and the creation myth behind Honest Tea's tea bags.

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And Neil Perry's Rockpool is a perennial favorite for tasting menus that rival Tetsuya's in the creative use of local ingredients such as a salad of green lip abalone, mussel, clam, tea-smoked oysters and noodles with truffle oil and mushroom soy dressing.

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Caffeine, guanine, taurine and green tea extracts all have these properties, says Ron Mendel, who has done research on diet drinks that combine these ingredients.

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