Journal

While there are certainly right and wrong ways to make matcha, there is no right or wrong way to consume that matcha once it’s made. Some folks down it like a shot of whiskey and others sip it slowly. Some drink it […]

I've often wondered, is anxiety -- defined as ongoing worries and intrusive, uneasy thoughts -- an innate part of being human? For the unlucky among us who seem to be genetically predisposed to anxiety, or anyone else who fal […]

As some of you know, before I started Breakaway Matcha I had a previous life as a cookbook writer. I still cook all the time, but I don't record what I cook now -- I just do it. I've thought hard about publishing som […]

If Aphrodite -- the Greek goddess of love -- had a kitchen in the clouds, I am fairly certain that she’d be whipping up frothy green mugs of matcha, just like the rest of us plebeian instagrammers. Why matcha, you […]

At birth, we are about about 80 percent water by weight. As we age, we just keep losing more water. Yikes.  Fetus ~ 94% Newborns ~78% Infants ~ 75% Children ~ 70% Adults ~ 60% Elderly ~ 50%* There really […]