Steep Stories

Tag: Tea

  • Tea in Star Wars

    Episode 1 The Rise of the Steam The kettle boils! A tea geek, locked in his room during quarantine, casually watched an episode of some Star Wars cartoon, and—lo!—a tea pot appeared into view. At first, he thought it was a mere happenstance, and didn’t think that tea played a part in the lore. He…

  • Tea Love in the Time of COVID

    Strange times we’re living in, huh?

  • Steeped in Selah

    2019 was a very weird year for tea. Or rather, a very weird year for how tea was covered in the press. And by “press”, I mean, mainstream media, not the usual tea or beverage-centric haunts that won’t hire me that cover tea. I’m talking about The New York Times and Thrillist, just to name…

  • Entheogenesis in Chicago

    At the end of October, I did something completely out of character. I traveled to a city I’d never visited . . . for a tea festival. Stranger still? I flew out for said unknown (to me) city on Halloween. Nothing about this—my motivation, my ambition, what-have-you—added up. The city? Chicago. The event? The Chicago…

  • My Birthday at a Tea Festival

    Over a week ago, I attended Northwest Tea Festival.  Again. It also happened to fall on my birthday.

  • Alternate Tea Etiquette

    Five days ago, a vendor friend posted this article on Facebook: I didn’t read it, which is usually what not to do, but I’ve seen such tea topical articles before. The direction they were going in was nothing new. As such, I left the following curt reply in answer to the title of the article alone: “Any…

  • In Search of the Tea Tree God

    Several months ago, I had a conversation with a fellow tea nerd about the origin of the tea tree. Y’know, small talk. During the dialogue, he uttered the following assertion that made my imagination boil over like an unrestrained kettle. No one had found the “god” tea tree, yet. Meaning: the tree from which all…

  • Tea at Sea

    I have a good reason for not updating this here blog in awhile, honest. For the last week or so, I was on vacation. As indicated by this dorky tourist capture. No regrets. Short summary: I was on a cruise with a gaggle of family members. All part of a makeshift family gathering that reunited…

  • The Tea Vlogger in “American Vandal”

    On September 20th of this year, I received an intriguing text from a fellow tea-brother: I’d never heard American Vandal, nor was I aware that it had two seasons. My Netflix-fu was neophyte status at best. If it didn’t have the word “Marvel” in front of it, or could be easily searched in the anime…

  • The Real Tea

    In the late-aughts (meaning: 2000-2009), my tea journey paralleled another hobby. YouTube. Since I worked the graveyard shift for most of the first decade of this century, I devoured a lot of content on that once-brand new streaming site. Even up to the present, this quiet addiction still percolates. Sometimes, it even cross-pollinates with my…