My Japanese Green Tea

In this episode I interview Robert Wemischner, author of Cooking with Tea. Robert is a pastry chef and a culinary educator. His vast knowledge of using tea as an ingredient...Continue reading

Den’s Tea is a tea company from California that sells Japanese tea. In this episode I interview Den Shirakata, a third-generation tea merchant and owner of Den’s Tea. We talk...Continue reading

Noli Ergas from Sugimoto America tells us the results from the analysis of their powdered teas: high and low grade matcha, houjicha powder and genmaicha powder. How much calories, caffeine,...Continue reading

The Urasenke school of the tea Japanese tea ceremony is the most popular, in terms of number of members. To learn more about it, I interviewed Reina Sakao of Sakao...Continue reading

The Enshu school of the Japanese tea ceremony isn’t very well known, but I find it intriguing because it was founded by a feudal lord and hence it is a...Continue reading

Have you ever seen a Japanese green tea with an extra step of oxidation? Neither had I until I heard about bihakkou  (微発酵, slight withering), also called ichou (萎凋) green...Continue reading

In this episode I talk with Pierre Baston, the inventor of the Qterra NOVO travel tea brewer. Imagine being able to brew multiple steepings of your favorite tea on the...Continue reading

Elyse Petersen is well known in the tea industry. She is the founder of Tealet, a tea company that aims to narrow the gap between tea producers and tea drinkers...Continue reading

In this episode I interview James Oliveira of Aiya America. Aiya is the largest producer of matcha in the world. I first met James at the World Tea Expo, he...Continue reading

This is the first time that I record a joint podcast with a fellow podcaster: TJ Williamson from the World Tea Podcast. The same audio file will be published on...Continue reading