NEW ISSUE 17 OF EIGHTY MAGAZINE
The new issue has arrived
Issue 17: Stillness
Not the still lake. Not the mist over a forest.
The ballerina's shoes on the floor after training. The pile of dishes after a good party. The umbrella drying at the porch. The moment after — when everything has happened, and the world goes quiet for just a second.
Issue 17 begins in a café in Lisbon — a few minutes stolen from a hectic day, a coffee, the particular quality of light through old glass. And in a small restaurant in Tokyo, a cup of hōjicha and the same quality of pause, on the other side of the world. Two cities, two drinks, one shared understanding: that stillness isn't something you find. It arrives, briefly, when you let it.
From there the issue moves to the jasmine fields of Guangxi just before the flowers open, to a conversation with landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic on designing spaces that work with people rather than for them.
To Miami, where Michael Ortiz has been pairing hip hop with tea and dismantling the idea that tea has a dress code. To Tokyo, where a centuries-old collection of tea utensils reveals how objects shape their cultures and record a moment in time.
To a park bench somewhere, a stranger, a cup of tea, and what gets said when someone finally stops moving. And into Iranian homes, where tea has always been this — ordinary, unhurried, and completely sufficient.
— Martin, founder of Eighty
t – THE MAGAZINE FOR TEA CULTURE
t– The Magazine for Tea Culture is an independent journalistic project, dedicated to telling the stories around the most enjoyable and culturally significant drink in the world. It is directed at common tea drinkers as well as members of the tea community, both professionals and enthusiasts.
Two years ago, T-Magazine began as a small, independent, German-language grassroots project. This year, having grown enough, they went international by launching their first issue in English in March.
T-Magazine is now available in both German and English. Look out for their second International Edition, coming at the end of September.
ESTA members can get a discount for the International Edition. Get the discount code HERE
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LEVELLING UP COFFEE AND TEA
Annabel Kalmar
ESTA recently participated in a podcast delivered by Coffee House Magazine entitled Levelling Up Coffee and Tea. Annabel Kalmar of Tea Rebellion and David Veal debated with some coffee people the importance and significance of adding speciality tea to the menus of coffee shops.
You can listen to the podcast on you favourite platform or click below:
On Spotify HERE
On Apple Podcast HERE
On Acast HERE
You can also read the highlights of this debate in the Coffee House Magazine issue 145, which is freely available for ESTA members on the Members Portal
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