See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...

Guests at Forté Tea Lounge experienced an authentic Japanese tea ceremony led by Suzuyo Rust, highlighting mindfulness, tradition, and cultural connection through matcha, sweets, and ceremonial ...

Japanese Tea and Ritual Room—Uzuki (April) is a research-based interdisciplinary work expanding perspectives on Japanese Tea Culture, seeking new meanings in ritual, and finding common ground between ...

Bowdoin’s Morita-Sensei celebrates Japanese culture by supplementing her students’ learning of the Japanese language with the complex yet rewarding art of sadō, the Japanese tea ceremony. Studying a ...

Eight hundred years ago, tea traveled to Japan from China in simple, ceramic storage jars. These ancient jugs, now on display in Washington, D.C.,... Japanese Tea Ritual Turned 15th Century ...

In World War II, Soshitsu Sen, who would become a 15th-generation Japanese grand tea master, packed his tea box and utensils into his luggage and headed off to war, trained as a kamikaze pilot. He ...

Even though I am Japanese ethnically and by citizenship, I never felt deeply connected to my Japanese heritage while growing ...

Nicola Zanatta, who worked for Möet Hennessy for 15 years, joined as a partner in 2023 to launch the duo’s first ...

NEW YORK -- Finding balance and harmony in New York City is a cup of tea at Globus Washitsu. The Japanese tea room teaches traditional Chanoyu tea rituals, passed down by Samurai, in the heart of the ...

MORAGA — Yufuko Kurioka and her husband, David Galbraith, want to bring their knowledge of tea to people, one cup at a time. For the past four years, Kurioka, who is an ordained Buddhist minister, and ...

Walk into any café these days and you'll spot that vibrant green powder being whisked into lattes and smoothies. Matcha has ...