Podcasts about floating leaves

What does a tea want to say?Is there something there, beyond just flavor notes, that's embedded by the teamaker, the roaster, and the place where the leaves are from?Today's guest is Noah from Floating Leaves Tea, a shop based in both Seattle, WA and Taiwan that specializes in Taiwanese teas. More than just a tea dealer, they also share a way of approaching tea that's a little more intuitive -- asking us to listen more to the leaves, and to ourselves, to find whatever joy and lessons may be in the leaves.In this episode, listen in as Noah guides us through a tea tasting, Floating Leaves Tea style. This was an absolute treat of a tea session to have: Noah is an incredible tea host, and he holds space here (in a Zoom call!) in a way that makes you feel like you're back at their tea table in Seattle.Along the way, Noah also talks about his journey as a tea roaster, learning to roast and refine teas from beloved teachers in Taiwan.This episode was recorded in Fall 2021. We taste an early version of Noah's Heartwood Hongshui, which he first released as a finished tea after another year of roasting practice, in Fall 2022.

Shiuwen of Floating Leaves offers a tea class on the defining characteristics that make green oolong more basic or more premium. Focus is on experiential learning. To join the class and learn from these episodes, you can drink these exact teas and answer Shiuwen's guiding questions from your own experience. Find the teas on our website here => https://floatingleaves.us/cart/39651321807055:1,41098440343759:1 The Teas : Jin Xuan Secret Garden Alishan High Mountain Oolong

Long time tea friend of Floating Leaves, the infamous Steve, joins Shiuwen and Noah to drink some teas that struck us by surprise!   The Teas :   Sun Solstice Oolong   Charcoal Roast Ruby 18   Lalashan Hong Shui   Find our teas at https://floatingleaves.com

When it comes to self-care, nothing beats pausing for a beautiful cup of tea—and so today's show is dedicated to the fine art of brewing said cup. I've got a bonafide expert, Shiuwen Tai, sharing her beautiful insights.  But first, I spend a little time sharing about something I love—jigsaw puzzles! Utterly pointless, right? But perhaps…that is the point! Puzzlers know nothing unkinks your neck and clears your mind better than putting together a sunset sky, or a still life, or some other serene, beautiful image. And what goes together better than puzzling along with a great cup of tea? Shiuwen's store, Floating Leaves, is a Seattle institution when it comes to tea. Here's what I learned in our informative chat: What oolong tea actually is The caffeine content in tea and why some (not all) can give you the jitters Chinese medicine and tea All about matcha—and how to make a matcha latte! (See below) We really dug into how to make a perfect cup, and why good quality tea is important. I even learned things about how picking tea is so critical to a great cup. I hope you enjoy! Sent with love,   Suzanne's Matcha Latte recipe ¾ tsp Ceremonial grade matcha powder 1 cup of oatmilk Sweetener ¼ cup boiling water Boil water. Heat oat milk in a small pot. Pull out a small bowl and find your smallest whisk. (A really small one is best!) Mix matcha powder with water in the small bowl, whisking it for at least 20 seconds so it's very foamy. Pour it in a cup and add sweetener. When oatmilk heats to a frothy head on the stove, turn it off and pour it on top of matcha in cup. Voila! As good as a Peet's or a Starbucks! RESOURCES Puzzle Storage System How to Use Jigsaw Puzzles to Actually Keep Your Sanity Self-Care Course Shiuwen's Online store, Floating Leaves FOR US Customers  For Non-US Customers,  Floating Leaves Tea Podcast Facebook Group MORE ABOUT SHIUWEN Shiuwen Tai grew up in Taiwan, where tea was simply a part of daily life. It was a way to bring friends together. She opened Floating Leaves Tea when she moved to Seattle, and tea developed a deeper significance for her—a connection to her home culture. Now she sees her position as a sort of bridge between East and West, sharing the simultaneously practical and abstract way the people of Taiwan see tea with an American audience.

Welcome to Floating Leaves, your local loofah emporium! Buy a loofah for your teapot, for your friends' teapots and even for your enemy's teapot. It's good for you!! *Also, Shiuwen wanted to make sure we made this correction : She did not give a liter of blood, but rather a PINT of blood.

We drank a delicious Eight Roast Dong Ding for the 16th anniversary of Floating Leaves which occurred on 8/8.

When Tammy and Mum take the dog for a walk, a hovering autumn leaf makes them wonder about the possible existence of vegetarian spiders and the dangers of tofu hail.Support the show (https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=5478&awinaffid=714853&clickref=podcast+link1&ued=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bookdepository.com%2Fauthor%2FR-A-Spratt)

This episode we drank a 30 year old tea for the grounding energy, and announced a big upcoming change for Floating Leaves! 

It's Floating Leaves 15 year anniversary! We're celebrating with a noon picked, charcoal roasted oolong from Taiwan. If you haven't had a chance yet, please consider entering our photo contest by August 5th to help us celebrate. We're giving away teapots! And the annual Anniversary Sale will start on August 7th.

This episode is an exploration of a sea of topics, all in the ocean of coronavirus research, implications on clinic/classroom experiences and safety, and the need to root ourselves in a more grounded sense of time and place as societal upheaval pushes us all to the limits. In our first section, Spill the Tea, we share the teas we are drinking. Michael is enjoying one of his teas, a "Jasmine Aroma" Phoenix Oolong. Zach is drinking a Pu'erh tuocha from Floating Leaves tea shop. During our extensive research discussion, we cover a number of papers on Chinese herbal medicine, approaches to studying it, and how to bring traditional methods of formula selection into modern clinical usage, most notably in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 and it's symptoms. Chung VC, Ma PH, Lau CH, Wong SY, Yeoh EK, Griffiths SM. Views on traditional Chinese medicine amongst Chinese population: a systematic review of qualitative and quantitative studies. Health Expect. 2014;17(5):622-636. Sinha, S. K., Prasad, S. K., Islam, M. A., Gurav, S. S., Patil, R. B., AlFaris, N. A., ... & Shakya, A. (2020). Identification of bioactive compounds from glycyrrhiza glabra as possible inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein and non-structural protein-15: A pharmacoinformatics study. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 1-15. LuoLiu, P., & Li, J. (2020). Pharmacologic perspective: glycyrrhizin may be an efficacious therapeutic agent for COVID-19. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 105995. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/07/418056/building-blocks-covid-19-antiviral-drugs-identified-rapid-study https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/infectious-disease/Protein-mapping-finds-over-60/98/i12 Gilbert C. Gee, Marguerite J. Ro, and Anne W. Rimoin, 2020: Seven Reasons to Care About Racism and COVID-19 and Seven Things to Do to Stop It. American Journal of Public Health 110, 954_955. Eng, Y. S., Lee, C. H., Lee, W. C., Huang, C. C., & Chang, J. S. (2019). Unraveling the molecular mechanism of traditional chinese medicine: formulas against acute airway viral infections as examples. Molecules, 24(19), 3505. Zhang, A., Sun, H., Wang, Z., Sun, W., Wang, P., & Wang, X. (2010). Metabolomics: towards understanding traditional Chinese medicine. Planta medica, 76(17), 2026-2035. Liu, X., Lv, M., Wang, Y., Zhao, D., Zhao, S., Li, S., & Qin, X. (2020). Deciphering the compatibility rule of Traditional Chinese Medicine prescription based on NMR metabolomics: A case study of Xiaoyaosan. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 112726. HealthCMi. COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Herbs Found Effective. 14 June 2020, www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/2039-covid-19-coronavirus-herbs-found-effective. Music used at end: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Humanfobia/Witch_Spell/02_-_Spell_on_the_Witch_House_with_Tesla_Tea

This is a little mini-episode we made to celebrate Floating Leaves Tea's 14th anniversary, and to announce our big annual site-wide sale. The tea of this session is a very special high mountain oolong from our charcoal roasting master in Taiwan. We take some time to thank the farmers and tea people in Taiwan who make this whole thing possible, we take some time to thank our loyal customers who have supported us over the years, and we get into a little bit of Floating Leaves history, as well as future goals. 

Today we welcome back to Talking Tea Shiuwen Tai of Seattle’s Floating Leaves tea to chat about one of our favorite teas, Taiwan’s celebrated Dong Ding oolong. Shiuwen believes that Dong Ding represents everything that Taiwan has to offer in terms of producing tea, and we chat about the qualities that make Dong Ding unique in this capacity. We discuss three basic styles of Dong Ding – traditional, fragrant and charcoal roasted – and together we taste and compare both a traditional and a charcoal roasted Dong Ding. Shiuwen points out that Dong Ding is a very “physical” tea, and we talk about the tea’s physical sensations as well as its flavors and aromas. We discuss the impact of Dong Ding’s terroir (particularly its soil) and oxidation levels, and Shiuwen tells us about a continuing controversy over Dong Ding’s cultivar.  When we move from tasting a traditional Dong Ding to a charcoal roasted Dong Ding, Shiuwen chats with us about the effects of charcoal roasting, both for Dong Ding and for oolongs in general, and how a good charcoal master can focus and amplify the complexity and beauty of a tea.   More info on Floating Leaves, including its online store, shop hours and classes, can be found at the Floating Leaves website, http://www.floatingleavestea.com, and at its Instagram feed.    Talking Tea is produced and hosted by Ken Cohen. You can follow Ken on Twitter @kensvoiceken.    more about Talking Tea  Sign up for our email list to get updates on new episodes and events.   The views and opinions expressed by guests on Talking Tea are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Talking Tea or its staff.   This podcast features music from “Japanese Flowers” (https://soundcloud.com/mpgiii/japanese-flowers) by mpgiiiBEATS (https://soundcloud.com/mpgiii) available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Adapted from original. Photo of charcoal Dong Ding by Payton, available under a Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 license. 

Ozu comes back to A Story of Floating Leaves after 25 years and remakes it in color with sound as Floating Leaves and they are both wonderful.

Heavy Color (http://www.heavycolorheavycolor.com) is a live beatmaking collective based out of Toledo Ohio. Heavy Color creates ethereal, bass heavy soundscapes with live percussion, MPC mashing, on the fly sampling, vocals and synthesizers. Heavy Color combines soulful electronic hazinesss with the organic textures of African and Latin percussion based music. In this episode of We Speak English Good, host, Mike E.P., sits down with Ben & Sam in their industrial warehouse studio in Toledo Ohio to talk about their upcoming album, collaborating with artist from Africa, their creative process, and other projects they are apart of, including, The Anti-Villains (http://www.theantivillains.com). Also, we listen to a couple tracks off their last self-titled album, Heavy Color (get the album here https://heavycolor.bandcamp.com/). We listen to tracks "One Billion Strong", "Glow", "Consider the Distance", and a sample of "Floating Leaves". Go to reinamystique.com to sign up for the newsletter. This way you'll know when and where host Mike E.P. will be this summer. Be a one trick pony and write the show at : wespeakenglishgood@gmail.com Leave a review on iTunes, Stitcher, or whereever you get your podcast, please.

We're continuing our exploration of Taiwanese oolongs this week with a focus on one of the most celebrated of Taiwanese teas, Baozhong. Shiuwen Tai, of Seattle's Floating Leaves Tea, gave us such a fantastic and comprehensive intro to Taiwanese oolongs in our last episode that we had to invite her back to give us some more in-depth knowledge, and we asked Shiuwen to talk about Baozhong because, well, it's one of our favorite oolongs. Shiuwen chats with us about Baozhong's history, from its origins in China to its later cultivation in Taiwan, and how this history along with Taiwanese innovations in growing and processing Baozhong give it the distinctive flavor and bouquet it's known for today. We also talk about the birth of floral teas in Taiwan, about aged Baozhongs and aged oolongs in general, and about how a tea maker's skill can create an experience for the drinker that, in Shiuwen's words, is "almost beyond imagination."   In the photo above, Shiuwen visits the Baozhong fields of Farmer Chen, in Taiwan's Wen Shan district.   More info on Floating Leaves, including its online store, shop hours and classes, can be found at the Floating Leaves website, http://www.floatingleavestea.com, and on its Facebook page. Shiuwen's blog is at http://www.floatingleavestea.blogspot.com.   For more information on Talking Tea and updates on new episodes, visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/talkingtea. To inquire about being a guest or having your organization featured, please email us at talkingteapodcasts@gmail.com. Have something in mind you'd like to hear discussed on Talking Tea? Leave us a comment on Facebook or on our Libsyn episode page, or email us.    Talking Tea is produced and hosted by Ken Cohen. You can follow Ken on Twitter @Kensvoiceken.         This podcast features music from "Japanese Flowers" (https://soundcloud.com/mpgiii/japanese-flowers) by mpgiiiBEATS (https://soundcloud.com/mpgiii) available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Adapted from original.   Photo of Shiuwen Tai in Farmer Chen's Baozhong fields, courtesy of Shiuwen Tai. 

This week on Talking Tea we begin exploring the spectrum of Taiwanese oolongs with Shiuwen Tai of Seattle's Floating Leaves Tea. Shiuwen chats with us via Skype about the history of tea in Taiwan, and how Taiwan's tea production has been influenced by its relationships with both China and Japan. We discuss some of the factors that go into forming the unique flavor profiles of oolong teas from Taiwan, including aged oolongs, why mouthfeel and texture are important in evaluating tea, and then take a closer look at two oolongs: Alishan, a high mountain Taiwanese oolong (the photo shows an Alishan tea garden), and the famous Tieguanyin.  Shiuwen also gives us tips on best brewing practices,  and shares her perspectives on how "science, art, love and patience" come together to create exceptional Taiwanese oolongs.  More info on Floating Leaves, including its online store, shop hours and classes, can be found at the Floating Leaves website, http://www.floatingleavestea.com, and on its Facebook page. Shiuwen's blog is at http://www.floatingleavestea.blogspot.com.   For more information on Talking Tea and updates on new episodes, visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/talkingtea. To inquire about being a guest or having your organization featured, please email us at talkingteapodcasts@gmail.com. Have something in mind you'd like to hear discussed on Talking Tea? Leave us a comment on Facebook or on our Libsyn episode page, or email us.    Talking Tea is produced and hosted by Ken Cohen. You can follow Ken on Twitter @Kensvoiceken.         This podcast features music from "Japanese Flowers" (https://soundcloud.com/mpgiii/japanese-flowers) by mpgiiiBEATS (https://soundcloud.com/mpgiii) available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Adapted from original.   Photo of an Alishan tea farm  by Wm Jas, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Cropped from original.