You may fall in love with the leaf, but soon you will also find that you have an amazing collection of teaware (and accessories). When people first get into tea, they work on procuring good tea and get to know that tea as well as they can. But eventually their focus turns to teaware, either [...]
Art. Tea. Is there a connection? Surely tea is an art, especially when one looks at the elaborate traditional tea rituals some cultures have. But can art relate to tea? Most definitely.
Most people are familiar with some of the more obvious examples of tea-related art. Tea pots and cups (especially lavishly decorated ones) are certainly [...]
Sadly, as is often the case in LA, the stress accrued in getting to an appointment counteracts the relaxation the appointment is designed to deliver. But despite the fact that it was Parents’ Weekend at UCLA and the campus was teeming with proud parents and their UCLA sons and daughters, the extra traffic and dearth [...]
Yoon Hee Kim is an oasis of calm as she steeps a beautiful Korean early spring green tea. With deft movements and the deepest focus, she is a dynamo, sourcing and blending tea, teaching the Korean tea ceremony, and in the process, paying homage to her family’s long history of involvement in the tea business. [...]
In earlier posts, I’ve shown pictures of some of my wood-fired teapots, tea bowls, and cups, and explained why I do long firings fueled with wood. However, being a New York City potter, I didn’t have a wood kiln, so I became an itinerant wood-firer, firing in any kiln I could find, helping out with [...]
With an Opening Reception on Saturday, September 26, 2009, the Vessels Gallery in Boston kicks off its Out of the Anagama: Kilnmasters and Stokers exhibit. In case you are wondering what a stoker is and how a stoker relates to a kilnmaster, a notice about the exhibit at MySouthEnd.com provides the answer:
If kilnmasters are the [...]
I came to ceramics late in life. My first love was teapots - porcelain with a shino liner, woodfired for three to four days to build up ash, and cooled for a week. The aesthetics were Japanese – the forms were not.
Then I started making tea cups because the users of my teapots asked for [...]
There are a number of perks associated with having a tea blog. Perhaps my favorite one is having the opportunity to sample innovative new products. The folks at Ceramcor sent me one of their gorgeous new ceramic Tea Potles, part of their Xtrema teaware line. This ain’t your grandma’s kettle. I was immediately drawn to [...]
Since I gave up drinking coffee some eighteen months ago, my need for breath mints has been eliminated. Tea drinking simply does not give rise to Dragon Breath, that fearsome halitosis that can incapacitate victims up to ten feet away. Coffee drinkers who smoke have been known to disable a charging black rhinoceros [...]
Looking for a delicious snack that can be made ahead of time, is easy as boiling water, and beautiful to look at? Look no further! While searching for pictures to accompany T Ching posts, I repeatedly came upon gorgeous photos of “tea eggs.” I had to know more. Why [...]
