2012 has been a year filled with an abundance of great teas and great friendships forged through tea. I anticipate no less from 2013. Thank all of you for reading! Possibly Related Posts: The Northwest Tea Festival is this weekend at Seattle Center World Tea Expo, 2012 Han Tea Ceremony at Seattle Chinese Garden San [...]
This weekend tea people from all over the Pacific Northwest and beyond will gather at Seattle Center for the 5th annual Northwest Tea Festival. The festival has gotten larger and better each year, and I am confident that this year will be one you will not want to miss. Unlike many of the large scale [...]
Later today I board a plane to take me to Las Vegas to attend the World Tea Expo. This will be my third year in a row attending, and I am looking forward to it. For me the Expo is a rare opportunity to focus entirely on tea, tea culture, and tea community, and it’s [...]
Tomorrow, March 24th, from 1:30pm until 2:30pm, the Seattle Chinese Garden will host a Han Style Chinese Tea Ceremony, presented by Mei Collier, owner of Eight Cranes. Ms. Collier is a frequent speaker at the Asian Museum in Pasadena, and at many California universities. After she heads back to California, she will conduct a tea [...]
On February 25th, 2012, Roy Fong, Owner and Founder of Imperial Tea Court, will present the first annual tea festival in the Bay Area. With the area’s rich cultural mix and history, it seems surprising that an event of this type has not already surfaced, and the historical Ferry Building will serve as an ideal [...]
Sponsored by Puget Sound Tea Education Association, the fourth annual Northwest Tea Festival will be held this coming weekend in Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center. The event will include at least 16 vendors and a robust roster of speakers and presenters, including James Norwood Pratt, Michael J. Coffey, Becky Lee, Brett Boynton, and Jason Chen. [...]
My article on this year’s World Tea Expo has been published on the English Tea Store Blog. Here’s an excerpt: One highlight among the vast sea of exhibitors on the Expo floor was the Taiwan Pavilion, where Thomas Shu and his wife Josephine Pan [of ABC Tea] hosted tastings and demonstrations. They were aided by [...]
A little over a year ago I started a tea company called Phoenix Tea Shop. I worked on sourcing good teas and products during the subsequent months (along with branding and building the websites), and managed to find a lot of great connections and opportunities. But I never really wanted to tackle this project single-handedly. [...]
Opening this coming Saturday, March 26th, at SLAB Art in Ballard, Infusions will center around an exhibition of teaware by contemporary ceramic artists immersed in the vibrant and growing Pacific Northwest tea culture, and will also feature tea tables made by the woodworking artists at SLAB. On Sunday following the show opening there will be [...]
You have a little more than a day left to enter Steepster’s Ultimate Holiday Tea Gift Contest, which will end at 8:00pm EST Friday, December 18th, 2009. The combined prize package is quite a large quantity of desirable stuff, ranging from modern, shiny tea accessories to a traditional matcha kit, and including quite a wide [...]
