Aside from water, tea is the most popular beverage in the world. It is enjoyed by half of the planet’s population, where coffee is consumed by only a third.
Tea plantations are found on cloud covered mountaintops, in warm and humid environments with rich volcanic soil. Thousands of varieties of tea come from the Camellia sinensis [...]
It’s been exactly one month (and three days) since I recorded an interview with my grandmother. I was inspired by the StoryCorps project and had dreamed of going to one of the mobile recording booths with her. Days after the booth left her area, she was diagnosed with cancer. I immediately took time off from [...]
Continue →The culmination of the one thousand years that comprised the Middle Ages was the Black Plague that broke out during the mid fourteenth century. In effect, it weakened even further the already susceptible population, whose health was already undermined by natural disasters, famine and war. As much as half of the populations of [...]
Continue →Unfortunately, I am not yet able to offer recipes that I have successfully concocted, as I am merely beginning the experiment. I have been reading about pigments for quite some time, and desperately want to create my own palette from locally harvested organic and inorganic sources. I am an artist and not a scientist, so [...]
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