I recently acquired a Chinese tea thermos. This type of tea thermos is quite common in China, carried around by workers as they go about their day, green tea readily at hand and replenished as necessary. I have also seen a few people with them in the International District in Seattle. Cat wrote about one [...]
For a loose tea available in bulk at a grocery store, Rishi Tea’s Jade Oolong is surprisingly good. I have bought it several times, and usually drink it while I am working because I can get it within walking distance of my workplace. This past weekend I prepared some of it gongfu style, which revealed [...]
I can imagine, with an admitted twinge of horror, the founders of Stash Tea sitting around an ugly yellow formica kitchen table on an overcast Oregon afternoon in 1972, when one of them perks up and says, “Dude! We should totally name the new company after our dope, man! ‘Cuz it’s like tea is also [...]
Several months ago, inspired by the examples I had obtained of traditionally-prepared teas aged inside of citrus fruits, I decided to try making some of my own. This venture was also “inspired” by my inability to locate any dried orange peel. This led to a shift in concept when I was able to procure a [...]
