Thirty years ago, when I first began a serious study of tea, one of the first books I read was The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura. After all these years, I still return to this book again and again for a reminder of the “philosophy of tea.” Okakura was born...
A tea drinker from a very early age, I developed a serious interest in tea and all things related to tea about 30 years ago when the co-founders of Banana Republic, Mel and Patricia Ziegler, started their tea company The Republic of Tea with young entrepreneur Bill...
