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Fall 2025 Quarterly - Steeped in Imperfection: Tea and the Spirit of Wabi-Sabi
With the rise of the samurai class and the military feudal lords (daimyo) they protected, the next several hundred years in Japan were a period of ...
Summer 2025 Quarterly - A Garden of Herbal Delights
Herbs have been with us since the beginning of time. Before recorded history, when humankind foraged as hunter-gatherers, we relied on our ability ...
Spring 2025 Quarterly - The Blue Hills of India
A new day dawns over the Nilgiri Hills of south India, the rising sun slowly illuminating the vast swaths of verdant tea fields, terraced into the ...
Winter 2025 Quarterly - A Journey of a Lifetime: Sri Lanka
Join me on a journey to a nation that is steeped in tea history, filled with spectacular landscapes and amazing food, a culture where the people sh...
Fall 2024 Quarterly - The Tea Party Renaissance
On Labor Day weekend, many towns hold parades and festivals, followed by a bounty of backyard celebrations, recognizing the hard work and achieveme...
Summer 2024 Quarterly - Okakura Kakuzo, Part II: Tea with Isabella
Okakura traveled to Boston when his devotion to Asian art and culture afforded him the opportunity to work for the Museum of Fine Arts. He was firs...
Spring 2024 Quarterly - Okakura Kakuzo, Part I: The Origin of "Teaism"
Okakura Kakuzo was born in 1863, during the final years of the Edo period in Japan. His father was a silk merchant who formerly worked as a treasur...
Winter 2023 Quarterly - "Boston Harbor a teapot this night!" The Tea Party that Ignited a Revolution
Tea has been woven into the fabric of history for millennia, being at the center of exploration and trade as well as the cause of war. By the time ...
Fall 2023 Quarterly - Kagoshima in Your Cup
Kagoshima boasts a notable tea history dating back to the 14th century. It is the widely held belief that a Buddhist monk, traveling from Kyoto, cu...
Summer 2023 Quarterly - Iced Tea World Tour
According to the Tea Association, Americans consume as much as 3.8 billion glasses of iced tea per year! That means that as a country, we consume f...
Spring 2023 Quarterly - Mindfulness and Tea
Let’s explore a little history on mindfulness. In the nineteenth century, Europeans first discovered Buddhism from the East and started translating...
Winter 2022 Quarterly - A Good Book and a Cup of Tea
Tea appears in so many beloved classic novels that it is impossible to mention them all! But what about books written on the subject of tea? A good...