We had a lot of fun talking tea with fellow BPP alum Jacob Ganz (now of NPR's The Record music blog). Part 1 is up now and the second half will go up next week. But even after making two whole episodes, we still had a few fun exchanges that didn't quite fit in either. Here's one that in barely a minute, somehow manage to touch on steeping technique, tannins, elves and Iceland. /mark
Meet the Bitter Elves Behind Your Tea’s Taste
Buyers would pay premium prices for Yemen’s coffee, if they could only get it.
With no experience in coffee, Mokhtar Alkhanshali heads to Yemen to fix an entire supply chain.
When it comes to seltzer, he’s a strict constructionist.



