Episodes
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Tea and Chocolate
We’re exploring pairing tea and chocolate today with Debbie Raab, co-owner and co-founder of the unique and delightful Tea for All in Lawrence, New Jersey. One of the things that makes Tea for All unique is its location inside the Trenton Farmers Market, the longest-running indoor farm market in...
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The NYTS Tea Studio, Sharing Gongfu Tea and Community
We’re very excited to be at the New York Tea Society’s new Tea Studio in midtown Manhattan, chatting with NYTS’ founder Roy Lamberty. Roy was a guest on Talking Tea in 2018 and he’s back today to talk with us about how NYTS has evolved since our earlier episode, and how its beautiful new Tea …...
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A Product of the Place: Creating Teaware and Ceramic Art, with Willi Singleton
Willi Singleton is a Pennsylvania potter who’s well-known among students and teachers of the Japanese way of tea as a maker of beautiful, lustrous teawares that are joy to use. Today we’re sitting down with Willi in his Kempton, Pennsylvania studio, at the base of Hawk Mountain, to explore his...
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Balhyocha, A Uniquely Korean Tea
Balhyocha is a tea unique to Korea – it’s not produced anywhere else – and its rich and varied flavor profiles are also unique, not quite like any other teas we’ve tasted here at Talking Tea. But for many tea drinkers, even afficianados of balhyocha, it’s also rather mysterious. What exactly is...
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Turkish Tea: An Introduction
Today on Talking Tea we’re exploring a tea origin and tea culture we haven’t yet visited on the show. Turkish tea isn’t widely known outside of Turkey, even though Turkey is a significant tea producer and has one of the largest per capita tea consumption rates in the world. To introduce us to…
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Tea as Daoist Meditation, with Robert Coons
After nearly a year hiatus from releasing new episodes, and nearing what’s hopefully the end of a worldwide pandemic, we’re very happy to welcome back Robert Coons to talk with us about tea as a medium for meditation and health, from a Daoist viewpoint. Robert is a well-known teacher and writer…
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Lakyrsiew: Unlocking the Magic of the Leaf
Today we’re continuing with our periodic series of shorter episodes focusing on one tea, one producer or one region that may be new to the tea stage or that we’re excited about and want to explore further. We’re joined by our frequent guest Kevin Gascoyne, co-owner of Montreal’s Camellia Sinensis...
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Emptiness in Tea Practice
When a friend who’s a longtime Buddhist meditation teacher asked me recently if “emptiness” comes into our study and practice of chado, the Japanese way of tea, I didn’t quite know how to answer. On Talking Tea we had chatted a bit about emptiness in a Daoist context, and its relation to tea, in...
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Bamboo Pu’er, Beyond the Novelty
There’s a certain novelty factor to bamboo pu’er – sheng or shou pu’er packed and (usually) aged in a bamboo tube. It’s not the way we usually acquire our pu’er, and it can be both challenging and fun to crack open the bamboo log and see what’s inside. But aside from the novelty, are bamboo …...
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The Korean Way of Tea, with Brother Anthony of Taizé
For quite some time we’ve been wanting to explore Korean tea culture on Talking Tea, so we’re very happy to be joined in this episode by Brother Anthony of Taizé, a prolific writer, translator and teacher and co-author of two notable books on Korean tea, The Korean Way of Tea and Korean Tea...
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Tea & Daoism: Adjacent Connections
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkingtea/TT_Rob_Coons.mp3 Today we’re exploring connections between tea and Daoism, the millenia-old Chinese religious and philosophical tradition that has had such a profound influence on culture and history in and beyond China. We’re joined by Robert Coons…
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