Matcha, Andy Goldsworthy, and Ephemerality
Goldsworthy's work is the embodiment of a Japanese aethetic ideal known as mono no aware, the awareness of impermanence and how nothing, ultimately, lasts very long.
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Is Matcha Safe to Drink Daily?
In sum, the answer for most people is an unequivocal "yes" -- green tea is one of the safest substances on the planet.
Matcha and Virus Season: Stop Getting Colds!
One of the most severe flu and cold seasons in a decade is causing extended illness for millions of people across the country. It is an especially nasty one. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the country (32 - 64 million!) will get the flu eac
Matcha Harvest, Generational Farming, Wendell Berry
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
"Enhanced" Matcha, Anyone?
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
Four Styles of Matcha Drinkers
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
What Does Matcha Taste Like? The Wine-ification of Matcha Descriptions
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
Try To Avoid Milk in Your Matcha, Please
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
Here's Why Your Matcha Tastes Bad
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 [...]
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