Talking Tea Podcast
1) A Product of the Place: Creating Teaware and Ceramic Art, with Willi Singleton
Willi Singleton is a Pennsylvania potter who's well-known among students and teachers of the Japanese way of tea as a maker of beautiful, lustrous teawares that are joy to use. Today we're sitting dow...Show More
A Product of the Place: Creating Teaware and Ceramic Art, with Willi Singleton
46:43 | May 9th, 2024
2) Balhyocha, A Uniquely Korean Tea
Balhyocha is a tea unique to Korea - it's not produced anywhere else - and its rich and varied flavor profiles are also unique, not quite like any other teas we've tasted here at Talking Tea. But for ...Show More
3) Turkish Tea: An Introduction
Today on Talking Tea we're exploring a tea origin and tea culture we haven't yet visited on the show. Turkish tea isn't widely known outside of Turkey, even though Turkey is a significant tea producer...Show More
4) Tea as Daoist Meditation, with Robert Coons
After nearly a year hiatus from releasing new episodes, and nearing what’s hopefully the end of a worldwide pandemic, we’re very happy to welcome back Robert Coons to talk with us about tea as a mediu...Show More
5) Lakyrsiew: Unlocking the Magic of the Leaf
Today we're continuing with our periodic series of shorter episodes focusing on one tea, one producer or one region that may be new to the tea stage or that we're excited about and want to explore fur...Show More
6) Emptiness in Tea Practice
When a friend who's a longtime Buddhist meditation teacher asked me recently if "emptiness" comes into our study and practice of chado, the Japanese way of tea, I didn't quite know how to answer. On T...Show More
7) Bamboo Pu'er, Beyond the Novelty
There's a certain novelty factor to bamboo pu'er - sheng or shou pu'er packed and (usually) aged in a bamboo tube. It's not the way we usually acquire our pu'er, and it can be both challenging and fun...Show More
8) The Korean Way of Tea, with Brother Anthony of Taizé
For quite some time we've been wanting to explore Korean tea culture on Talking Tea, so we're very happy to be joined in this episode by Brother Anthony of Taizé, a prolific writer, translator and tea...Show More
9) Tea & Daoism: Adjacent Connections
Today we're exploring connections between tea and Daoism, the millenia-old Chinese religious and philosophical tradition that has had such a profound influence on culture and history in and beyond Chi...Show More
10) Sensory Immersion Into Tea
In this episode we're at the 2020 Toronto Tea Festival and its kick-off event, Kevin Gascoyne's Rare Tea Tasting. Kevin is an internationally recognized leader and innovator in the tea industry, a co...Show More