There is a big story to break right now, and I am running late already. The story is - drum roll please - the inauguration of Happy Earth Tea’s first retail space. It’s a unique space. Nothing like you’d expect....
Sweet sweat of the earth is this tea. I know it could be stretching things a bit too far - sweet and sweat and taste of a tea. But indulge me here a bit please. I always am challenged when...
A tea enthusiast’s fantasy came true for me recently - to participate in a Japanese tea ceremony, not just witness one. The whole experience was incredible, starting with where it took place. The ‘teamaster’ lived just about 10 minutes walk...
The session on Darjeeling tea tasting had been rescheduled by a month at the Brighton Memorial Library. (Brighton is a suburb of Rochester, NY). Who knew it would turn out to be such a perfect day? On what was a...
Even as Earth Day approaches, there are signs here in upstate NY as well as across the world, in the remote fastness of the Himalayas, that something strange, almost bizarre, is going on in the weather. Signs, did I say?...
The strange weather this spring - both here in the US, and Darjeeling on the other side of the globe from where we source some of our teas - underscores my decision to take our business green. We have been...
The big old brick building stands along the train tracks, about half a mile from the Memorial Art Gallery. The Hungerford, the building’s name, is painted large across the top. The sign - a memory of this town’s past glory...
When I moved from India to the US over two years ago I told myself I was not choosing one over the other. My heart and my mind now had to be big enough to exist like I live in...
It was dark as I peered into the bowels of the tea bushes. I must have been about five or six, when I ventured out on my own beyond the train tracks where the tea plantation was. It was perfect...
