Recently Maker Extraordinaire Jared Diprose (jareddiprose.co.nz) built a timber-framed teahouse clad in newspaper, inside Crave Cafe in Morningside, Auckland. I served tea. Over 400 cups, over 4 days for up to 7 hours a day. As an introvert it was exhausting, but so much fun meeting friends and strangers and introducing them to tea-making and…
Tea & be
To Tea or not to Tea – that is the question.
I like drinking tea. In 1906 the seminal The Book of Tea by Japan’s Kakuzō Okakura was published in the USA. He says of tea, “(i)t has not the arrogance of wine, the self-consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.” That’s good enough for me, although I do enjoy “simpering innocence” most days…