STiR coffee and tea magazine

STiR coffee and tea 21 Visit us at Host 2017 Hall 22 booth T26 U25 FILLING SIMPHONY Advanced Filling Technologies S P R E A F I C O - S R L . C O M Spreafico è un marchio leader nella progettazione e commercializzazione di macchine automatiche per il riempimento e confezionamento di caffè e solubili in capsula. Ogni macchina Spreafico è costruita e collaudata con la massima cura e precisione, al pari di uno strumento musicale. Spreafico is a leading brand in the capsule filling of coffee and other soluble products. Each Spreafico machine is designed, crafted and tested with maximum precision and attention to details, just like a musical instrument. ently based on research has been proven to contain 0.1 to 0.12mg of gold mineral per 1kg of tea. – Sharyn Johnston JAPAN Tea in School Tea education is being incorporated into elementary and junior high school students in Shizouka, Japan, in many innovative ways. Some of the reasons for this are the collapse of traditional tea culture, the decrease in consumption of green tea by younger people and the increase in knowledge of tea's value as a health drink. Ways that tea is being used in education to improve interest in tea is to establish a habit of drinking tea with meals whilst at school, habitual gargling to prevent cold and flu whilst at school (this has resulted in fewer cases of sickness), tea painting contests, caring of tea plants in the school tea garden, and sharing of tea with fellow students. There are also tests given to students on types of tea leaves, best brewing, and knowledge of different teas. Overall this focus on tea education has improved the interest in tea at many levels. Shi-An: Portable Tea House Architectural designers enthuse about the movable origami Japanese tea house created by Kazuya Katagari. Named Shi-An, it is 2 meters tall and 2 meters in diameter (7 feet by 7) and made entirely of 4,000 pieces of paper, using origami techniques. They are folded so that they slot together without any glue, staples, cutting, or scotch tape. It's sturdy, movable, and very beautiful. The tea house is not a gimmicky decoration. It was designed as a temporary and mobile exhibition piece, for Ni-Jo Castle in Kyoto, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It has been awarded several prizes including first prize for a Rethinking the Future competition. Kazuya Katagari's interest is in unconventional materials and geometric forms. He chose the tea house for his initial design because it "embodies the ideal of Japanese simplified beauties." He and his colleagues are scaling up the size of the "cellular bodies of structure." For the tea lover, this paper house is a reminder of just how refined and exquisite the Japanese tradition is: ceremony, preparation and service, equipment, rituals and of course the tea. Who knows? Maybe, you'll see an origami tea house at Epcot Center, in a corner of a really fine hotel that now serves high tea with all its pastries and carbs. The style of simplified beauties calls out for Uji region sencha, Gyokuru, stone-ground matcha and maybe a shincha. Shi-An origami tea room

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