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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...