CelebriTEA Tuesdays #18: Jack NicholsonЗнаменитости по Вторникам #18: Jack Nicholson
"There was round-the-clock partying, drinks, drugs, sex, lots of TEA (of the smoking kind), and beautiful, hot, willing girls who loved to get just as high as the boys and have a good time," Marc Eliot writes in Jack’s memoir, Nicholson. I know it seems that the tea they are describing here is not the actual drink, but I just didn't feel very serious today and thought I will add it to our CelebriTea Tuesdays anyway!Марк Эллиот пишет в мемуарах Джека "Николсон": "Там была вечная нескончаемая тусовка, алкоголь, наркотики, секс, много ЧАЯ (курительного вида) и красивые, горячие, желающие девушки, которым нравилось получать заряд виде всех этих допингов и хорошо проводить время".
Я знаю, что чай, который здесь описан, скорее всего даже и не чай, а что-то совсем другое, но сегодня в наш вторник чайных знаменитостей, я совсем не была настроена серьезно, и решила, что включу Джека Николсона с его курительным чаем в сегодняшний выпуск! :)))) Конечно, Джек, я так понимаю, был еще тот кадр в молодости. И что это был за чай, который они курили, можно только догадываться. Ну и картинка к нашему посту тоже весьма подходящая.
Boston ♥
Amazing Hok and his friend Simona are singing the song called "Why do people fight"... It was filmed in Boston three years ago, but somehow the lyrics and the song are such, like they almost recorded it today after the tragedy...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkKt0H0Pq0I
Amazing Hok and his friend Simona are singing the song called "Why do people fight"... It was filmed in Boston three years ago, but somehow the lyrics and the song are such, like they almost recorded it today after the tragedy...
On Serving Tea with your HEART ♥
What is more important - having a perfect tea ceremony visually, or having it done imperfectly but with the heart full of Love?
Once Rikyu took two disciples to have tea with an old man, quite poor, who made exquisite iron tea kettles.
The man’s hut was shabby, his utensils inferior and mismatched, his tea not of the best quality. His hands shook as he performed the ceremony, and at one point he even dropped the tea scoop.
Walking home with Rikyu, the two disciples couldn’t help but draw attention to all the man’s short comings as a host.
Rikyu upbraided them, saying, “His tea was superb. He used his best utensils, gave us his best tea, and served us with all the sincerity of his heart. He is your master.”
Many though there be Who with words or even hands Know the Way of Tea Few there are or not at all Who can serve it from the heart
Though you wipe your hands And brush off the dust and dirt From the tea vessels What’s the use of all thus fuss If the heart is still impure?
Seven Cups of Tea...
Drinking seven cups of tea will bring you very close to the enlightenment, according to the chinese poet Lu Tong:
The first cup kisses away my thirst,
and my loneliness is quelled by the second.
The third gives insight worthy of ancient scrolls,
and the fourth exiles my troubles.
My body becomes lighter with the fifth,
and the sixth sends word from immortals.
But the seventh—oh the seventh cup—
if I drink you, a wind will hurry my wings
toward the sacred island.
"Seven Cups of Tea" Lu Tong (Tang Dynasty)
The beauty of White Tea
White Tea
... is so pure and clean that to be able to appreciate it you need to be pure and clean within yourself too. Not everyone likes this tea. You need to grow to its level. If you smoke, or if you eat fried chicken wings from KFC, or if you drink vodka on a regular basis - you will not be able to feel its subtle and fragile taste, which stays and expands on your tongue with the aftertaste of thousands of small honeydew drops.
It is the most unprocessed and unfermented tea out of all of them. The buds are picked from the tea bush and withered in the natural sunlight, so it keeps most enzymes and juices, and also keeps and contains the power of the sun!
White tea got its name from the very fine white-silvery hair on the tea buds, which makes them look whitish (and hairy!)
White tea is full of antioxidants, which has numerous positive effects on your body.
I love this tea a lot for its subtle taste and aroma, for the feeling of a gentle motherly hug and for the knowing that this universe loves and cares about me... :)
Categories of Tea
There are 6 categories of tea in China:
1. White tea
2. Green tea
3. Yellow tea
4. Oolong tea
5. Red tea
6. Puerh
How do they differ?
Firstly, tea leaves for each of these types of tea are picked from different tea bushes. Yes, they all come from the same tea plant called Camellia Senensis, however there are numerous sub-variations of it - and for each type of tea only certain variations are used to get out its best qualities. Today, there are more than 260 variations of the tea plant in China.
And secondly, the level processing involved is different, ranging from none (for white teas) to very complicated long fermentation processes (for Puerhs).
Only two points, but the difference between the teas is huge!
Tea and Rap go hand in hand
Russian rapper Basta has been a big fan of chinese tea for a long time. In 2010 he released a song called "A Tea Drunk". According to him a "tea drunk" is someone who is madly in love with tea and knows everything about it.
However, russian teenagers interpreted it differently. :) After this song was released, sales of tea peaked, as young people flooded tea shops in search of a "high" they thought they can get from drinking tea. They sent numerous letters to the famous rapper, asking him to explain in detail a method for brewing tea, which leads to an altered state of consciousness.
Basta replied: "I can tell you for sure that you cannot get to these kind of states from drinking tea. If you are seeking for a "drug" effect - of course, you will not get it. Tea is about a different culture and philosophy, and slightly different states of being."
Me like this squirrel
Sometimes I really feeling like this squirrel lying down in the direction of the dream... :)))
Tea Oxidation/Fermentation - what is it?
Tea Oxidation/Fermentation - what is it? I used to be quite ignorant of this word, and preferred to just drink and enjoy my tea without questioning the degree of its oxidation/ fermentation. Who cares that green tea is unfermented and oolongs are partly fermented, when you can simply enjoy the drink?
But then it became obvious that it's not possible to explain the difference between tea types without understanding what oxidation is.
Oxidation (sometimes called Fermentation) is the process, which happens inside a tea leave under the influence of oxygen, temperature, water and mechanical manipulations of a tea farmer. This process give results in a tea's distinct aroma, taste and colour.
The same thing happens with an apple if you cut it in pieces and leave them for some time - they get dark, or oxidised.
And so is with tea. The process is such that tea leaves are crushed, left to rest, then watered, then heated up, then crushed again, and so on and on, in different variations. The more manipulations are done with tea, the more it is "tortured" - the higher the degree of oxidation.
So you can often hear that "this tea is lightly fermented", or "that tea is heavily oxidised", or "that type is 40% oxidised" - basically all of these meaning one thing - the amount of manipulations done on tea leaves before the final baking stage.
So green and white teas are the least fermented. Red and Puerh - the most fermented. And Oolongs are in between with oxidation being in the range of 20-70%.
Oxidation is an infinite process and continues every single second but it is dramatically stopped with the fixing (heating stage) of the process.
