A huge part of my job as a tea importer trying to establish Chinese tea service as a cultural practice in America is drawing analogies. This is quite easy when it comes to the tea itself – good tea, like good wine, beer, chocolate, coffee, liquor, or pretty much
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You can tell a lot about artisans by how they care for their tools. The same can be said of a musician and her instruments, or a chef and his knives. Just as a master of any skill or craft can be distinguished from an amateur by that singular, effortless grace known to the Chinese as gong fu,
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I do have a favorite tea, and where it’s grown it doesn’t have a particular name. We call it Immortal Dew.
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Continued from Precious State: The Unusual and Obscure Teas of Guizhou – Part 2 The...
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Continued from Precious State: The Unusual and Obscure Teas of Guizhou – Part 1 In contrast,...
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