In addition to my writing here, I am also a contributing writer for The Taste of English Tea Blog, which is connected to the English Tea Store. This has led me to pursue avenues of tea and tea research of a more English flavor. One recent example was that I started finding out more about [...]
In a theater last week I encountered a very poignant example of tea as cultural signifier. First a little background: The film, Katyń, by Andrej Wayda is about the massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers in the Katyń Forest in 1940. In the late stages of World War II both the Nazis and the [...]
Mighty Leaf Tea’s Jade Oolong is a good introduction to green (very lightly oxidized) oolongs. If most of your experience with oolongs has been with darker, more oxidized varieties, a Jade Oolong will probably be a very pleasant surprise. It has a pronounced but general floral note and is very spring-like and aromatic. Any oolong [...]
Tea Fight (Dou Cha) was released in 2008 and directed by Yeming Wang. I haven’t seen it myself yet, but will very soon. It’s a curious and fast paced melange of Japanese and Chinese tea cultures merged into contemporary and legendary story lines. It appears to be quite overblown, and a little absurd, but there [...]
