This is my first tea review, so I decided to start with one of my favorite teas: genmaicha. The Persimmon Tree is a a relatively new tea company, and...
Saponin: Another Beneficial Compound in Green Tea
One of the attractive things about preparing matcha is its characteristic layer of foam. Did you know that foaming in matcha is possible thanks to saponin? What is saponin?...
Podcast 001: The Persimmon Tree Tea Company
This is my first podcast! Although I’m not that good at speaking English, I think I’m getting the hang of it. I’ve decided to interview tea companies in the...
Beginner’s Guide to Steeping Japanese Green Tea
I wrote this guest post for World of Tea, a well-known tea blog written by Tony Gebely. Tony has been writing about tea since 2009, and he also authored...
Caffeine Myths About Tea
Caffeine, the world’s most popular psychostimulant, has both its pros and cons. Because of health reasons, some people have to lower (or completely remove) their daily caffeine intake....
19 Lessons On Tea (Book Review)
I found this tea guide by 27Press enjoyable, I read it all in one day during the weekend 🙂 Although 19 Lessons On Tea kind of sounds like a...
5 Reasons to Drink Genmaicha Daily
It’s no secret that genmaicha is my favorite tea, I never get tired of drinking it. Have you tried genmaicha yet? In it’s most common form, genmaicha consists of...
How I Fell in Love with Green Tea
This is a guest post for Tea For Me Please, an excellent tea blog written by Nicole Martin. I thought it would be good to change things a little,...
Asian Tea Classification: Why Their Colors Don’t Match Ours
Did you know that what we call black tea is known as red tea in Asia, and that there’s also blue tea? On a previous post, I wrote about...
Sencha Saketini Cocktail
I love sake, some of my favorite cocktails have sake in them. When you use sake as a base, a martini becomes a saketini! Let’s make a sencha saketini....
The Book of Tea (Book Review)
The Book of Tea, by Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉覚三) is interesting because it was written for the West, and in English. It’s a classic tea book, from 1906. After reading...
Tea Seeds First Brought to Japan Inside their Fruits?
I saw an interesting article on a Japanese web page about how tea seeds where first brought to Japan from China. You can find the article here, but it’s...