Just wanted to share with everyone a beautiful PDF of my previous “Hacker’s Guide to Tea” that will appear in the January 2011 issue of Hacker Monthly. Hacker Monthly is a collection of the most interesting posts from Hacker News each month. Here it is, enjoy!: Hacker’s Guide to Tea
read more »Camellia: Botanical genus to which the tea species and its varieties belong, named for Georg Josef Kamel, a German Jesuit missionary who lived in Japan during the latter half of the 1600s and classified the plants he found in Asia. The Camellia genus includes 81 different Camellia varieties besides tea, like the garden flower Camellia japonica. [...]
read more »Kamairi Cha: Special Japan green sometimes called “China green tea” by the Japanese because it is pan-fired and not steamed. After a short withering, the leaf is fired in hot iron pans at 300C with constant agitation to prevent scorching. Rolling techniques employed during firing can produce either leaf pellets or flat leaf. Best Kamairicha comes [...]
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There’s been many opposing studies out there about tea and cancer right now. Many are claiming that tea can “prevent” cancer. Some actually say that tea can promote cancer. As always — when human health is involved, there is money to be made. Big brands are just waiting to tack a new label on a [...]
read more »Zhiji: Zen (Chan) Buddhist priest who raised the orphan Lu Yu and would never thereafter drink tea made by anybody else’s hand If you want to read more about James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary or to pick up a copy, click here.
read more »Nei Pio: Literally, “description tickets.” In use since 1972, this white piece of paper is packed inside Pu-Er wrapping. It lists benefits of drinking Pu-Er and instructions for preparing it. If you want to read more about James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary or to pick up a copy, click here.
read more »Jin Xuan Oolong: Properly called “milk oolong,” this is a tea cultivar developed in the 1990s. It yields a lighter Jade oolong-type tea, mildly astringent and very aromatic with a milky character of its own. Jin Xuan is popularly marketed as “milk oolong” because of its remarkable cream like flavour and aroma. If you want [...]
read more »Rize: One of the smallest provinces of Turkey. It is located 75km. east of Trabizon, on the border of Georgia, overlooking the Black Sea coast and climbs a mountain slope covered with tea bushes. Since the 1940s, it has been important as the Turkish tea industry capital. If you want to read more about James [...]
read more »Baghjan Pruning: Old method of pruning mature tea bushes, named for Assam estate where it originated. This method is aimed at restricting bush height and delaying medium pruning, but later it results in formation of knots on the pruned “frame” or trunks of bush. If you want to read more about James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary [...]
read more »Fukusa: A square silk cloth used in cha-no-yu for the ritual cleaning of the tea scoop and the natsume or cha-ire, and for handling hot kettle or pot lids. Fukusa are sometimes used by guests for protecting the tea implements when they are examining them. When not in use the fukusa is tucked into the [...]
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