Jason Cohen

This will be a quick post lacking the photos and reference links in most of my diatribes… The Tea Institute works on a semester lecture cycle, where our new students (prospective researchers) join one of our 3 tea ceremony clubs (Chinese, Japanese, or Korean), learn a ceremony up to a

While Pennsylvania may have a low Okapi Count, making it difficult for me to find proper Kosher stakes, the state has a un-surprising glut of beautiful and well kept secrets. Just when Asia started to wear off of my mind, and as I was starting to think State College sits

What water you use to brew your tea has a huge effect on its flavor, as has been repeated ad nauseum in books and blogs as a source of wisdom, improvement, and importance. And it does. Spring water isn’t magical (so they say), but a proper balance of minerality,

What do you do when the research is done? Party on the coast! At a club built over a sunken barge in Bocas Del Toros! I also did some scuba diving, looking for shipwreak teaware! (I didn’t actually find this piece… but it’s mine!) Bocas del Toros is

The sights of Panamanian life include some great fodder for thought and photo. From the exquisite natural beauty of ocean side palms: or the denizens of this fine jungle, adapting well to the slower pace of life in the tropics: I manage to find the local Kosher fine food market:

Arriving back in the united states is always a little odd after so long away; getting off that plane and traveling alone through Seattle as my gateway for English and Americanisms, the tastes and smells and air are so different, and all of that fades to a jaded background static