The 2019 matcha harvest has pretty much come to a close, as it does every year at this time. By all accounts, it's been an exceptional one.It's the busiest time of the year for both producers of matcha and processors of matcha. The farmers have culminated their year-long efforts, and, if things have
As many of you reading this know, the combination of good matcha and good water, made with some care and love, is one of those sublime and rare experiences that can't be reduced any further. Just two things: matcha, and water. Water quality and water temperature will affect things, to be sure (as wi
We talk with a lot of people who enjoy matcha in a variety of ways. Almost everyone is in one of these four groups. 1) The "just give me the nutrition, please" people.These are people who most concerned about getting all the nutritional goodies that matcha offers (to read more about matcha's ma
Hate matcha? You're being rational.Many of us have had the experience of wanting to like matcha, but upon actual encounter are left with a sad, disappointed, and even mildly disgusted feeling. It's not your fault -- it's the matcha's. It started out bad, and never had a chance. Wherever it came from
Matcha, like many things we put inside our bodies, has a taste spectrum. Some of it tastes sublime, and some of it is disgusting to the point of being unpotable. And there's everything in between.I think many of you know what bad matcha tastes like. As my daughter Daphne once memorably described it
As many of you know, a few years back we compiled a large (and growing) database of links to medical and clinical studies on the effects matcha and green tea have on human health.The reason we built it is that no such database existed, as far as we could tell (if anyone can point me otherwise, [...]
I do get the pleasures of sweet milky drinks in general, and sweet milky matcha drinks in particular. Matcha plays well with dairy and sugar; there's something that just hits the pleasure centers, so it's easy to understand why sweetened milky matcha drinks are so popular.Another reason sweet milky
There's so much matcha out there, it's crazy. If you don't get it and don't like matcha, you are being very rational, given that most of the matcha flooding the markets and Amazon is of such low quality it's even hard to call it matcha at all; it's more like ground up bad green tea [...]
Yes, fashion models drink matcha before fashion shows in New York. Matcha is indeed currently the "it" drink among fashionistas the world over. How did this happen?! Worldwide, the beauty industry now bursts with green tea-influenced beauty lotions, creams, and facial masks, and even — for the trul
