Journal

I recently had the opportunity to have a cup of matcha with the fascinating and inspiring Tynan, a young entrepreneur who’s obsessed with living a...

I grew up with Red Rose tea bags, a blend of black and orange pekoe teas.  My mother liked to make a cup in the...

I recently had matcha in SF with the inimitable Leo Babauta. This guy, despite having created an army of fans who love his musings on...

There are lots of metaphors about the incessant chatter going on in most our heads, that datastream of conversations, impressions, admonitions, and other mental events...

The Japanese tea ceremony as it is practiced in Japan can be a thing of beauty. The tradition is roughly 830 years old. Like so...

Plenty of people consider matcha to be a new trend. In reality it’s been a trend in Japan for roughly 830 years, started by those...

By now, most people with even a marginal interest in food and food trends have heard of matcha. This is a good thing, and its...

The fine people at Dwell Magazine are such matcha converts that they invited Breakaway Matcha to exhibit and pour matcha shots for all the designers...

I recently had what can only be described as a transcendent matcha experience: I drank the equivalent of about 12 servings of matcha, but did...

We’re doing it again: another workshop at one of my favorite places on earth, the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, in the Ventana Wilderness, southeast of...

I recently had the pleasure of spending an afternoon at the home of musician, radio host, and deadhead extraordinaire David Gans and his lovely wife...