Gradually, tea is coming out of its teapot: more and more chefs are using it as an ingredient in their cooking. First there was baking with matcha; now tea is making itself more at home in the kitchen as a flavouring for savoury dishes.
Tea is also served as an accompaniment to food, like here at Yam’Tcha, in Paris, where a pu erh is paired with a chicken dish, poularde de Bresse.
25 January 2013
In some countries, people don’t just drink tea, they eat it. Like here, in Burma, where they ferment tea leaves in bamboo tubes before serving them drizzled with sesame oil….
21 April 2017
Working together is good; sharing good times is even better. Yesterday was the Tea Sommeliers day, which I devote to the people who have obtained their precious diploma. The aim…
5 October 2010
When I’m in Darjeeling, momos are one of my favourite recipes. For those who aren’t familiar with Himalayan typical food, it’s a steamed pastry filled with vegetables (“veg momos”) or…
22 January 2016
When I give a lesson at The Tea School, or when I arrange a tasting for colleagues, one of the first things I do is to ask them a very…
I didn’t know about the combination of pu-erh and chicken dish in Paris. If I had known last year when I visited Paris I would have tried it without a moment’s hesitation. The fact is that tea and cooking have been paired together by Japanese and Chinese for hundreds of years. For instance, I don’t know if you have ever tried the famous Chinese smoked duck or the traditional Japanese ochazuke (the tea soup). Even the Irish have a traditional recipe which involves tea cooking, the Irish bram brack. I have also written about this subject and I hope you don’t mind sharing my own article here, as you have opened the subject. I hope you enjoy it, if you have time to read it http://rivertea.com/blog/world-of-tea/the-secrets-of-tea-cooking/
François-Xavier Delmas is a passionate globetrotter. He’s been touring the world’s tea plantations for more than 20 years in search of the finest teas. As the founder of Le Palais des Thés, he believes that travelling is all about discovering world cultures. From Darjeeling to Shizuoka, from Taiwan to the Golden Triangle, he invites you to follow his trips as well as share his experiences and emotions.
François-Xavier Delmas is a passionate globetrotter. He’s been touring the world’s tea plantations for more than 20 years in search of the finest teas. As the founder of Le Palais des Thés, he believes that travelling is all about discovering world cultures. From Darjeeling to Shizuoka, from Taiwan to the Golden Triangle, he invites you to follow his trips as well as share his experiences and emotions.