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Continue reading →: GenAI, LLMs and TeaI’m a technologist and I drink tea. While not everyone has jumped on the love-ai-or-hate-ai bandwagon, a lot of us have been grappling with how the recent advances in artificial intelligence and its availability to businesses and the public at large – whether knowingly or unknowingly – impacts our work…
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Continue reading →: Self-care in Cascadia, Post-2024 Election
Seriously, with everything that’s going on, you need a cup of tea. Need an additional hit of dopamine with your tea? Play a game. Need a virtual hug with that dopamine hit and your tea? Play a game with friends. I’m a learn-by-doing type, especially when there’s something worth doing,…
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Continue reading →: A Cup of Tea for Mom
Do you remember the first cup of tea you made? I’m sure I don’t remember the exact first one – memories from our early childhood are often more about things we were told or shown about our childhood than our own first-hand recollections thanks to “infantile amnesia” – but I…
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Continue reading →: my tea habitI’m a creature of habit. I’ve also worked hard to reduce my caffeine habit from 6-8 shots of espresso and practically unlimited sodas a day in the Before Times, before the pandemic (broadly) and before my pregnancy (personally), down to 1 or 2 lungos a day and no caffeinated sodas…
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Continue reading →: The 3 Types of Tea. Or, 6. Definitely 6. But also 3.According to Okakura Kakuzo in his celebrated classic, The Book of Tea, there are 3 kinds of tea: cake-tea, powdered-tea, and leaf-tea (referring to the tea preparations of the Tang, Sung, and Ming dynasties, respectively). In a fictional vignette “Lu Yu Explains Tea” included in Teatime in the Northwest, 3rd…
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Continue reading →: where can a seattlite get a cup of tea without the fuss?
If you’ve ever looked for Afternoon Tea in the greater Seattle area, you’ve likely run into the usual suspects: fluffy pink princess parties or expensive nods to our tradition-and-class-conscious cousins across the Atlantic — or invitations to venture further north to Victoria for a proper Tea. Don’t get me wrong,…
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I’m Amanda
Welcome to cascadia teahouse, a record of my journey as I learn about tea culture here in the pacific northwest.
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