Author Archives: feiwil10
Terroir Definition
Local produce traveling a short distance with low carbon emission / Photo by Willow-Creek Feighery Terroir is putting food in a cultural context, playing off of flawed human memory, halcyon, affected by cultural normalities, culture dictating how gender and laboral roles are perceived and administered. These sociologic ideas merge with more solid ideas … Continue reading
Attributing Taste to Terroir: Opinion
Hand holding flavored processed insects / photo by Willow-Creek Feighery The bug chewed the leaves to oxidase them. Terroir. The machine ran over the leaves and bit the leaves. Terroir? The leaves could oxidize on the plant in two ways; bitten by hand or bitten by insecta. Would the flavor remain the same? Would … Continue reading
Inside Taste: Tea Tasting Insights
3 favorite insights from tea tastings done in class in weeks 1,2, and 5: Our group really enjoyed tea tasting sipping teas while listening to the story of tea from a historical perspective of someone who knows the worker and the British/Indian history of tea, changing the flavors of the tea and our appreciation for … Continue reading
Tea Talk in Chinatown: with Anthony DeVries
Get a taste– or savor –a minute with Anthony DeVries as he compares Chinese teas to French wine varieties and comments on tannins, find the video here
Bibliography
Works Cited “Botanical Information,Plant Description Of Camellia Sinensis.” Botanical Information,Plant Description Of Camellia Sinensis. MDidea Exporting Division Extracts Professional, 19 Aug. 2015. Web. 8 Feb. 2016. Sealy, J. (1958) A Revision of the Genus Camellia, Royal Horticultural Society, London. “The Plant: Camellia Sinensis.” The Plant: Camellia Sinensis. In Pursuit of Tea, 2014. … Continue reading
The Plantation History and Contemporary Business of Tea
Component by Tai Jordan / photo by Willow-Creek Feighery Passed, let go, no longer with us, in a better place, all phrases used to soften an otherwise seemingly devastating blow– the reality of the truth. The truth is not something anyone in the nation of America is taught to believe in as constructive … Continue reading
Tea, Taste, and Memory
Perspective by Tai Jordan / photo by Willow-Creek Feighery Tea tasting, for me is not as simple as it seems. This idea of tasting and where it comes from. What is it to genuinely engage in the act of tasting tea. Is it the way the tea moves across the taste buds, tantalizing sensations are … Continue reading
Instagram
