Happy September and Happy Late-Summer,

Even though summer activities are winding down, you're probably still drinking lots of iced coffee and tea, made with excellent-quality beans and leaf from Cooks Shop Here.

Experts now acknowledge that consumption of brewed coffee and tea should be included in the measure of one's over-all recommended intake of liquid.
This is good news!
So in addition to drinking lots of water, you can also enjoy the healthful benefits and great taste of tea while hydrating your body.

Speaking of TEA, many of you have commented that our tea prices are ridiculously low, especially as our tea is of the highest quality and is so fresh, fresh, fresh. Everyone knows that we are meticulous with all our products, but we are particularly passionate about tea. We personally select all of our tea, tasting hundreds of teas every year to assemble our selection.

When ordering tea from our Website, it may seem that our shipping charges are high. However, we charge for shipping as it is charged to us, and that is sometimes very high. We could charge less for shipping, but then we would have to do what everybody else does: either raise our base prices for tea or buy cheaper tea.

We don't want to do either of those choices.

However, we are constantly striving to adjust our shipping rates to be both fair and competitive, so we are going to run a special for the month of September and see if the response from you is positive, and if the freight charges that we are billed can be covered by a lower fee charged to you.

Shipping charges are based on a combination of the base rate (for the entity of shipping a box) plus the charge per pound-weight. Bottom line is that the more in the box the less it generally costs, per pound.

So we will be offering this special for September:

Purchase at least one copy of  co-Cooks Shop Here owner Mary Lou Heiss' book:

Green Tea: 50 Hot Drinks, Cool Quenchers, and Sweet and Savory Treats
ISBN: 1-55832-298-1
Published by: The Harvard Common Press

together with tea or other products valued at US$75.00 or more, and we will only charge US$5.00 shipping.

If you already have her book, just order US$100.00 value of tea and / or other products and we will still only charge US$5.00 shipping.

Bottled goods and other 'breakables' will be charged an additional US$1.00 per bottle, due to the need for wrapping and their heavier weight.

I have been surfing other food store websites and can honestly say that this is an unbelievable deal - but we think that our loyal customers deserve it.

As this plan is impossible to program into our shipping module in the shopping cart of our website, be assured that we monitor all orders that come in and we will replace the shipping charges that it registers, and only charge you the amount as stated here.

We'll see how this goes and fine-tune it for the autumn months.

Happy tea-drinking and be sure to stop in if you are in our area.

Bob Heiss
(Cooks Shop Here co-owner)


P.S. - -
The new-harvest olive oils are in now and are ready for your great salads and other late-summer foods. The October newsletter will feature some of these great oils.

Our famous olive oil sampler has been updated too. It makes a spectacular and tasty house gift.

Our annual Grand Tasting of Olive Oil will be Sat. November 11,2006.