Month: September 2021

The tea tasting Thursday opened my mind to a whole new world of tea. Before Thursday, I also had drunk tea with a lot of honey. On Thursday, we drank tea without any sweetener, just the tea itself. Drinking pure tea was such a different experience. It was not as sweet, but it was natural… Continue reading Tasting of tea

The course materials have been very engaging and exciting. The readings I have particularly enjoyed as they are not typical readings which makes them less dull. This has been my most different class. Most of my classes are just doing the same thing over and over again, I.E., reading similar readings and then answering the… Continue reading Reflection

The poem after eating has a constant theme of darkness and sleep. The poem is a beautiful one that describes a tea lover that does not have worries and instead enjoys life for what it is. Both the poems “after eating” and “thanking director Li Six for sending new tea from Shu” have a theme… Continue reading The Method

The sentence I chose for Wilkinsons text is “Tea drinking is one of the great Chinese contributions to worldfood culture, but contrary to popular belief, it is not an ancientChinese beverage”. The sentence I chose for Towler’s text is “Shen Nong, whose name can be translated as the divine farmer, lived around 5,000 years ago.… Continue reading Wilkinson and Towler text

Orwell writes an essay on how to prepare a perfect cup of tea. He goes into detail on the perfect cup and the shape of the cup, the temperature to heat the tea, how much cream and milk to add and what order to add it, what tea is the most desirable, and how real… Continue reading Response to George Orwell’s a nice cup of tea.