Issue link: https://read.dmtmag.com/i/834732
CONTENTS / "There are few places on the planet that offer up the kind of clarity, pace, and stunning insight that the tea-stained lands or mountain-rich geographies do. The sacred green and stunning ominous heights are sacrosanct by virtue that they offer up nature-born stimulation and encourage awe all at once." // Jeff Fuchs Photo by Jeff Fchs $14.95 (USD) SUBSCRIBE ONLINE ORIGINS TEA JOURNEY | 3 The 5,000-kilometer Tea Horse Road crosses China to Tibet ending in India. 22 Travelers on the Tea Horse Road Explorer and tea trader Jeff Fuchs walked 5,000 kilometers for eight months along the most daunting trail on the planet to record the living history of the last of the tea muleteers and people he met along the way. 18 Tea & Tech Allen Han The intense, curious, and inventive creator of the Xbox 360 and Kindle Fire turns his attention to designing the ultimate tea brewer. The Teforia Classic is infi nitely customizable and capable of machine learning. 56 Grandmother' s Brazilian Tea Brazil is an unlikely haven for Japanese tea but to Elizabete Ume Shimada's specialty tea gardens thrive on the lands south of São Paulo. The tea she grows is called Obaatian – O Chá da Vovó, Japanese for grandmother's tea. 32 The Milk Tea of Mongolia Making and pouring milk tea is an everyday ritual among the nomadic herders of the Mongolian steppes. People here drink their breakfast of tea fried and fortifi ed with grain and meat, a hearty meal to face the harshest day. The 5,000-kilometer Tea Horse Road crosses China to Tibet ending in India.