Gongfu Girl | Exploring Tea Culture One Cup at a Time

Shiuwen Tai and Jake Knapp are partway through the process of creating a wonderful full-length documentary on the producers of Dong Ding Oolong in Taiwan. They will be going back to Taiwan next month to shoot more footage and do more research, but here...

If you are at all connected to the fabulous worldwide network of tea people online you already know about the crowdfunding initiative for Tea Journey Magazine. As of today, tadalafil the ambitious funding goal has been met, link with more than 500 people...

After encountering an article on the band Tinariwen, I went searching for some additional information on them. Their music is a distinctive blend of multiple traditions, including those of the members’ own Tuareg culture from Mali.
As I browsed the names of the songs for which there were videos, one title caught my eye: “Iswegh Attay,” which I suspected meant something to do with “tea” since I knew that the Moroccan Arabic word for tea is “Atay” (اتاي).  As I began to watch, I...

The role played by tea in the formation of an independent United States is a familiar one, but one aspect of this history that I had never considered before was the possibility that some of the actual tea offloaded in protest into Boston Harbor might...