In this episode I interview Kei Nishida, the founder of Japanese Green Tea In. This online store sells Japanese tea in the US, which they source from Arahataen Green...
Podcast 030: Sharp Tea-Ceré
I first saw the Tea-Ceré at the 2015 World Tea Expo in Long Beach. It’s a wonderful concept. Imagine adding tencha leaves and quickly obtaining a matcha that has...
Podcast 029: Chaos Theory Ceramics
I learned about Chaos Theory Ceramics through Twitter. They have beautiful pictures of tea cups that immediately caught my attention. In this episode we talk about Jian ware. Since...
Podcast 028: The Tea Crane
Once again I interview Tyas Huybrechts, who recently started his own online tea store: The Tea Crane. He focuses on premium Japanese teas, many of which are either organic...
Podcast 027: Kanes Tea
In this interview I speak with Naomi Komatsu (executive director) and Yusuke Ikegaya (translator) of Kanes Tea. This Japanese tea company is starting to sell its products abroad. It...
Podcast 026: Teforia
There’s been a lot of excitement in the tea world regarding the Teforia infuser. I haven’t seen it in action yet, but I managed to land this interview with...
Podcast 025: Cooking With Tea
In this episode I interview Robert Wemischner, author of Cooking with Tea. Robert is a pastry chef and a culinary educator. His vast knowledge of using tea as an...
Podcast 024: Den’s Tea
Den’s Tea is a tea company from California that sells Japanese tea. In this episode I interview Den Shirakata, a third-generation tea merchant and owner of Den’s Tea. We...
Podcast 023: Compounds in Japanese Powdered Teas
Noli Ergas from Sugimoto America tells us the results from the analysis of their powdered teas: high and low grade matcha, houjicha powder and genmaicha powder. How much calories,...
Podcast 022: Urasenke School of The Japanese Tea Ceremony
The Urasenke school of the tea Japanese tea ceremony is the most popular, in terms of number of members. To learn more about it, I interviewed Reina Sakao of...
Podcast 021: The Enshu School of The Japanese Tea Ceremony
The Enshu school of the Japanese tea ceremony isn’t very well known, but I find it intriguing because it was founded by a feudal lord and hence it is...
Podcast 020: Cha Doraku
Have you ever seen a Japanese green tea with an extra step of oxidation? Neither had I until I heard about bihakkou (微発酵, slight withering), also called ichou (萎凋)...