Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar ...

Tea ceremony classes in Japan are bearing the brunt of an acute shortage of matcha as a recent global boom in green tea has ...

Across the world, the finely ground green tea powder appears everywhere, poured over ice, blended with milk, folded into desserts, and photographed endlessly ...

Matcha is a form of green tea in which young tea leaves have been ground to a powder using a stone mill. Unlike other teas, ...

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Matcha is in short supply as the Japanese green tea is at the center of a global boom. In addition to the popularity of matcha lattes and ice cream, there is also growing public interest in the ...

The Japanese tea ceremony is deeply rooted in the ideals of Zen Buddhism, but the current matcha hype has little to do with ...

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