A is for Aroma, the beautiful scent of tea as it steeps and you wait for it to be ready to drink.
B is for Brew Basket, a tool used to make loose-leaf tea that I have exceptional difficulty using. One would think I would have figured it out after so many failed attempts…
C is for [...]
Although Rooibos is not a tea, it is brewed like tea and is chock full of antioxidants, like tea. However, Rooibos contains no caffeine, which makes it a perfect bedtime beverage. I love Rooibos because it is so incredibly versatile.
Rooibos can be brewed unblended, in its natural, earthy form. The scent is reminiscent of tobacco [...]
Dear Readers…this is Norwood Pratt’s last post with T Ching for now. We thank Norwood for his poetic descriptions of the history of tea as well as of tea itself over the past several years. His posts every Tuesday have been anticipated and enjoyed by all of you. We are hoping that Norwood will join [...]
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. [...]
When we recently made two short musical videos about tea, the intention was to help fund an educational course. But the process ended up being educational in itself.
Elizabeth was looking around for scholarships that could help fund her Master’s in Liberal Arts at Reed College in Portland, when she discovered the Calm-a-Sutra competition run by [...]
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 [...]
Given the small turnout for opening day of the Steeped in History: The Art of Tea exhibit at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, my expectation for the turnout at the first of several lectures associated with the exhibit was low. Thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised. When I entered the auditorium in the basement of the building housing [...]
Lochan Tea Limited, a tea company based in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, offers a variety of high-quality teas to clients in the United States, Canada, France, Norway, and China. With a focus on eco-friendly production methods, Lochan Tea bills itself as “serving society with superior quality products”. But the company has taken its mantra of [...]
As our new Student Editor, Alexandra Hoover has the perfect combination of passions and skills. It goes without saying that she loves tea and, by her own admission, “drinks too many cups of tea a day”. But she is also an accomplished writer, who has not only been a T Ching guest contributor since May, [...]
What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon for the tea devotee than to drink in the objects d’tea at the new exhibit that opened August 16 at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, Steeped in History: The Art of Tea, guest curated by Beatrice Hohenegger? Definitely the next best thing to sipping tea, the exhibit offers an [...]
