READ about the Met’s “Monstrous Beauty A Feminist Revision of Beauty” exhibit and how it relates to tea history

READ about the often overlooked 17th century history of the Dutch starting the European tea trade and Taiwan’s role in colonial tea history.

View photos and read about a trip to Horaido Tea, a historical Japanese green tea store, in Kyoto since 1803.

LISTEN to an interview about tea history and listener call-in Q&A I did with Alison Stewart on WNYC’s “All of It” show

READ and article on tea emoji and the history of tea I wrote for Smithsonian Magazine

everything I’ve wanted to say and have been thinking for the last 10 years about regarding tea, its colonial history, and the legacy of that still today for Whetstone Magazine’s Online Journal.

A Mini (as in broadstroke highlights) tea history in ancient China before the year 1368 AD.

Examining a classical Chinese painting about Qing Ming and thinking about tea ancestors.

READ a quick glimpse at the tea trading history of Xiamen aka Amoy.

Exploring the Ancient Tea Horse Road, an 1000 year old trading route, we will illuminate the exciting adventure and travel elements of Pu'er tea’s long history.

Why Qimen is also known as Keemun, how it ended up being a black tea made in a region mostly known for green teas, and how it became a global superstar of black teas.

Learn the relationship between the spring tea harvest and one of China’s ancient holidays to honor ancestors and the dead.

Read about the little known story of how a tea industry and style of making tea represents a history of displacement in Mae Salong, Thailand since 1948.

Listen to the conversation I had with Evan Kleinman on her public radio show and podcast "Good Food” on KCRW.

Read about small scale tea production on Hawaii’s Big Island and the history of tea growing in Hawaii. With lots of photos.