EUREKA -- For 10 years, Chiyomi Thompson has been brewing teas, baking scones and serving petite sandwiches to patrons young and old at her tea shop, Mad Hatter's Tea Party, on E Street.

In addition to serving assorted teas and delicacies -- including scones, sandwiches, quiche and other fare -- to folks who come in throughout the day, Thompson also offers a traditional high tea five days a week, all from a cozy dining room.

And, she single-handedly prepares each morsel herself.

The history of tea is a long one, according to Stash Tea's Web site (www.stashtea.com). However, "high tea" didn't come onto the tea scene until the mid-1800s when Anna, the Duchess of Bedford, experienced a "sinking feeling" during the long wait between breakfast and dinner, which was served well into the evening.

Sweet Beginnings

The San Antonio, TX, USA-based beverage company, Sweet Success Enterprises, Inc., maker of better-for-you beverages like Chocolate Immunity Infusion, PowerBlend and Ultra Greens, recently met with Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) officials for preliminary talks on developing a strategy for a co-branding effort to assist JDRF in its fund-raising campaigns."Our focus is to establish a co-branding effort with JDRF to educate and provide this healthy beverage to school systems throughout the US," says William Gallagher, Sweet Success CEO. "We are now talking to a major distributor on the East Coast who could possibly provide delivery to most of the school systems in their 11-state area."The co-branding is focused on Sweet Success’ GlucaSafe, a Fuel for Health green and white tea/pomegranate based beverage that contains only 2 grams of sugar and 15 calories per serving developed to maintain healthy glucose levels. In May 2007 Sweet Success again teamed up with JDRF as a sponsor for its "Sugar Show 2007" event at Six Flags Over Georgia.