Take a look at the trailer for a CCTV documentary on tea culture. Note that the gentleman at the end of the trailer is Matthew London, who has done extensive and beautiful photography of tea culture, including powerful portraits of tea people. CCTV – Tea Culture Documentary Trailer #1 from A.J. Marson on Vimeo. Possibly [...]
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 [...]
A few months ago, I won a sampler of four Thunderbolt Darjeeling teas on the Thunderbolt Tea Facebook page. What lucky fun! I drink a lot of tea, but until recently I’ve mostly been a stranger to Darjeeling. All of the teas in the sampler are lovely when made correctly, and I was surprised to [...]
The topic for this month’s Tea Blog Carnival, sponsored by the Association of Tea Bloggers, was “select a specific type of tea and write about how you brew it.” The following is a list of the contributions from member bloggers. Black Dragon Tea Bar: “Blueberry Tisane” Chadao Europe: “How do I brew shu puerh using [...]
I try never to lose sight of the tremendous importance of physical, material beauty in the act and practice of preparing and drinking tea. Naturally, when the light glints off of the droplets on the lovely curved inner surface of glass and the flat, dark rosewood surface of the tea table, there’s no danger of [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is a post by Cosmin Dordea, who writes the tea blogs Chadao, Way Of Tea Europe and Chadao Calea Ceaiului. ********************* “A musician can have Kung Fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep, this too is Kung Fu.” As mister Jackie Chan said above, kung [...]
The third and final part of my interview with Nigel Melican is now posted on Cha Dao. Excerpted: Cinnabar: The attempts at growing one place’s regionally-specific tea in a different location seem strange to me, because if you’re taking a type of tea varietal and growing it somewhere else, with a totally different climate and [...]
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Ironically, I’ve been pondering the question posed by this month’s Association of Tea Bloggers-sponsored Blog Carnival, “why do I write about tea” for some time, but putting off the actual writing about writing about tea. It’s one of those topics that is deceptively simple. It’s easy to get all tangled up in the meta-conversation, analyzing [...]
Among loose-leaf, tea-drinking humans in the office, you will observe 3 main species: Homo Laborus glutto. Glutto chugs tea, and is identified by the enormous mug at its workstation. Just as salmon instinctively find their way upstream, you can will observe glutto’s well-worn path and bee-line movements toward the nearest toilet several times each day. [...]
