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Eighty Degrees – Issue 6
Regular price SFr. 22.00 Save Liquid error (product-template line 127): -Infinity%Hello spring! To honour this important season in the life of tea, we bring you a new issue packed with stories about the transience of this beverage and the world around it.
In this issue, we explore the accidental but legendary origins of black tea in China.
Gwen Chesnais compares the struggles of China accepting wine with those of tea in the West.
We examine how various temperatures affect our brew and how cold we can actually go.
In the never-ending strive to search for great teas we should not forget to appreciate some of the humbler leaves for they deserve their own special place.
Should a broken thing be discarded and replaced? Or can it be fixed and improved, making it even more valuable? Kintsugi is an ancient philosophy that can teach us a lot about our modern lives.
Turkey, Japan, India. We will drink the mountain with a hermit, but also experience the highest sophistication of tea cuisine.
All this and much more on 144 pages of beautiful, uncoated paper.
Eighty Degrees – Issue 5
Regular price SFr. 22.00 Save Liquid error (product-template line 127): -Infinity%Tea is a multifaceted subject and one can rank the many types according to countless features. In this issue, we will look at four of the most famous and highly acclaimed Chinese teas — China’s green kings.
James Hoffmann, the coffee wizard with a soft spot for tea, helps us dissect the rivalry between coffee and tea drinkers and investigate the appeal of both beverages.
Five businesses tell us about their journey through the current pandemic and what pitfalls and opportunities befell them.
We explore which teas go well with which foods and how readily restaurants might onboard a proper tea menu.
We take tea with a fifth-generation metal craftsman in the heart of Kyoto, visit a team of renegades in the forgotten fields of an ex-Soviet Union country, and discover high-elevation gardens in the Himalayas.
All this and much more on 144 pages of beautiful, uncoated paper.
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