The Tea Chronicles – Wabi Cha
"Though you wipe your hands and brush off the dust and dirt from the vessels, what is the use of all this fuss if the heart is still impure?"...
The Tea Chronicles
Tea and Football
At my grandmother's house, the kettle went on before the coats came off. It was the first thing you did after answering the door — before the news, before the...
Sons of Ceylon
Tea with Thierry
The pot arrives first. It always does now.
For eighteen years, Phnom Penh has been my home, and for most of those years there has been a standing appointment in my...
A Cinnamon Life
Sri Lanka is cinnamon: the birthplace of this spice, and its natural producer in its finest form, taste, and scent. Cinnamon permeates all life in Sri Lanka — the island produces over...
Chapter Two: The First Earthrise
All human suffering concerns every other human being.
— Václav Havel, New Year’s Address to the Nation, 1 January 1990
The photograph that changed how the human race understood itself was taken...
Elsewhere
In Search of Lost Attention
Part One — The View from Out Here
At that moment I seem somehow to understand the extraordinary saying that there shall be no more time.
— Prince Myshkin, in Fyodor Dostoevsky,...
A New Chapter at The Garden
Yi Sang: Cantonese Heritage Meets Cambodian Soil
Under the soft lights of Yi Sang The Garden in Toul Kork, 170 distinguished guests gathered last Tuesday evening for the unveiling of...
Cambodia's Living Cuisine
Chef Luu Meng
There is a saying in Cambodia that the Khmer people were born of the Naga, the seven-headed serpent of legend who rose from the sea when the gods married a...
