This post is going to be some of my favorite photos involving Japanese tea, while I bring up the idea that I would like a lot of tea drinkers to get behind. Due to the devastated Japanese economy, if you are not skiddish about the possibility of radiation, of which until I see otherwise it is highly unlikely that any tea will hold severely elevated levels of radiation. And those radiation levels bar any horrible disaster yet to take place will be quite unlikely to even get close to levels that are unsafe for consumption.
So I would like to call this the Year of Japanese Tea and Ceramics, i.e. if you wanted to give Japanese teas a try, do it. If you are running low on two different teas, and one of them is Japanese, place the order for the Japanese teas first. In short any tea related purchase of which you are deciding between two or more, and not partial to one over the other then err on the side of Japanese.
4 comments:
A very compassionate idea, certainly something to consider!
May I ask what reassures you that the irradiation levels in Japanes teas from this year will be negligible?
Martin
Martin,
Many people get scared when they hear the word radiation, but what they do not realize is that radiation is all around us every day, and even the measured radiation levels of radiation near the Nuclear power plant (by that I mean in neighboring cities), while increased from their typical levels should those levels remain constant for an entire year, it is still quite minimal to what is harmful for human health.
This is not even talking about the levels in most tea producing regions which are much much further away.
Where did you get your Hagiware? It's gorgeous.
Nick,
I have acquired them from several different places, those being Zencha, Artistic Nippon, and through Ebay, notably Magokorodo.
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