on writing, tea, and other miscellany
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Book Rambles: Crip Up the Kitchen by Jules Sherred
This book convinced me to get an Instant Pot. Okay, backing up. If you’re unfamiliar with Crip Up the Kitchen by Jules Sherred, it’s a cookbook written specifically to make the kitchen more accessible for disabled cooks. Jules Sherred discusses his motivations and process for publishing the book on an excellent Queries, Qualms, and Quirks…
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Looseleaf Tea: A Quick-Start Guide
I promise I have interests other than tea (an aside: tea-drinking goes rather well with reading and writing, I must say), but as a follow-up to my previous ramble, here’s a quick-start guide to looseleaf tea. This is for anyone who wants to try steeping looseleaf but doesn’t know where to start or lacks the…
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Let’s Talk About Tea
Special interest ramble time! All true tea originates from a plant species called Camellia sinensis. The leaves are processed in different ways to produce green, black, white, oolong, and pu-erh. Fully oxidizing the leaves produces black tea, while green is heated promptly after harvest to prevent oxidation. Oolongs cover a range of partial oxidations, with…