Tag: coffee
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Tea, Coffee, and the Arakai Estate Terroir
The family Collins, purveyors of the Arakai Estate, have had a busy year. Which is a bit of an understatement.
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Reading the Coffee Leaves
In the spring of 2013, I tried a tisane made from the dried leaves of a Hawaiian coffee plant. And I wasn’t a fan. The flavor was not overly offensive, just . . . herbal. And nutty. Nutty-herbal. Okay, on “Internet” paper that doesn’t sound too terrible or unappetizing, but it wasn’t very palatable, either.…
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Cáscara Té Amo
NaNoTeaMo, Day 25: “Cáscara Té Amo” When I first started doing “NaNoTeaMo” at the beginning of this month (i.e. a tea blog every day in November), I also chose use it as a hashtag. What I didn’t know was . . . the hashtag was already in use for something else. And I had no…
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From Starbucks to Star Wars
Yesterday was just like any other day. I got up (far too) early, made a pint o’ Earl, poured cereal, basked in the morning meditation, then went to work. While at work, I did what I normally did…found moments of quiet solace to check my phone. Imagine my shock-‘n-awe when I was greeted by several…
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Attack of the Coffee Clones
“Ersatz” is a German word that roughly translates to “substitute or replacement”. English speakers adopted it to refer to an inferior copy of something else. The original definition, however, does not indicate that the duplicate need be inferior – merely alike. My first exposure to the word arrived in two different ways the same year…