Hi friends! I’m finally here with another instalment in the SustainabiliTEA series! This profile is different from the rest because for the first time, I’m focusing on a person rather than a farm. I reached out to Rajah Banerjee, who pioneered the organic movement in Darjeeling and since he has experience with two farms, I… Read More SustainabiliTEA: Rajah Banerjee
I’ve had this book on my Overdrive wishlist for a while, but I didn’t really think about reading it until I had to prepare a talk about tea and remembered that a few farms have talked to me about the dangers of monocultural crops, and suddenly, Never Out of Season seemed really relevant. Never Out… Read More Book Review: Never Out of Season by Rob Dunn
Remember how I did a small series of reviews on courses I took last year? Well, I forgot to include this one, because it’s not really a course but a collection of courses. The easiest way for me to describe Wondrium, formerly known as The Great Courses Plus, is that it’s like Coursera but without… Read More Wondrium Review
I can’t quite remember how I found this book, but it was in my overdrive wishlist and I was looking for a fantasy to read so I decided to pick it. What I found was a French-inspired fantasy full of friendship and learning how to put broken things back together. The Castle Behind Thorns starts… Read More Book Review: The Castle Behind Thorns by Merrie Haskell
Hello my tea friends! We are back with a new cultivar to look into – and it’s a very interesting one today. What is the Gokoh Cultivar? I say the Gokoh cultivar is interesting because all these teas that I’m drinking are sencha (steamed green tea, which is different from Chinese green teas which tend… Read More Tea 101: The Gokoh Cultivar
I’ve had Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (can I call it DYPOTBOTD because that is a loooong title) on my TBR list for a while because it seemed to be fairly divisive. I’m pretty sure that I’ve heard both really good and bad things about this book and it made me… Read More Book Review: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
My week is over and I think it went pretty well! So it’s back to regular programming, I hope. I first heard about this book when Zeezee reviewed it. Since I’ve not read much African and African-American-inspired fantasy and since I also enjoyed the Percy Jackson series, I thought I would enjoy this one. And… Read More Book Review: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Hi friends! Today is the start of a pretty intense week and I’m going to have not one, but two final exams on Friday, so I probably won’t be very active (reading or posting) this week! It’s all part of the “find balance” thing I said I wanted to do this year, so I’m intentionally… Read More Be Right Back!
I did an introduction to the Yumewakaba cultivar recently, but somehow, I forgot that I had a Yumewakaba black tea that I could talk about as well. But it all worked out for the best because this tea is so delicious that it deserves its own post! First Impressions As with most black teas, the… Read More Tea Review: Yumewakaba Black Tea
“Journalists, as they say, write the first draft of history, and the first draft is the only one that most of the public remembers, not the more nuanced, better-informed one that comes after the dust has cleared.” This was one of the books that the library featured in Libby when I opened the app, and… Read More Book Review: The Revolution That Wasn’t by Spencer Jakab
