Herbal Drinks
Spiced chai: the slow morning kettle
The kettle in my mother's kitchen in Bangalore is dented in three places and the handle is wrapped in a strip of...
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Herbal Drinks
Slow tea mornings, herbal tisanes, traditional brews and the cultural stories behind the cups we hold each day.
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Herbal Drinks
Genmaicha: Japanese tea with toasted rice
The teapot in our family kitchen in Kyoto is a small earthenware kyusu, brown with a darker glaze on the rim. My...
Herbal Drinks
Yerba mate: the gourd and the bombilla
In a small plaza in Montevideo, on a Tuesday afternoon, an older man sat on a wooden bench with a hollowed gourd...
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Moroccan mint tea: the long pour and the second cup
In Fes, in the old city, there is a riad where the tea is poured from at least a foot above the...
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Tulsi morning brew: the Indian household herb
Before the door of my parents' house in Bangalore there is a clay pedestal called a tulsi vrindavan. Inside it grows a...
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Chamomile evening tisane: a quiet European tradition
At my grandmother's kitchen in Friuli, the camomilla jar sat on the third shelf, between the salt and the dried bay. When...