Along with a new lineup of Valentine’s Day drinks, Starbucks recently added two new matcha items to the menu. The Iced Double Berry Matcha and Iced Banana Bread Matcha aren’t here for just a limited ...

Starbucks is promising love at first sip with its limited-time Valentine's Day menu. On Feb. 3, the chain unveiled two new Valentine's Day-themed drinks. Separately, it also added two new matcha ...

Eight Grams Matcha, a cafe specializing in matcha-based drinks and desserts, opened on Bancroft Way across the street from Eshleman Hall on Jan. 19. The cafe features soft green and white decor with a ...

As New Year’s resolutions go, one of the top has to be to swallow more green stuff. Filling the plate with veggies is one option, but what if it’s possible to consume greens as a smooth, unctuous sip ...

Once regarded in Western countries as little more than a traditional Japanese ceremonial drink, matcha has become a mainstream staple. It now appears everywhere from coffee shop menus and smoothie ...

Headline: Matcha quality decline: Is it a ‘victim of its own success’? Matcha has taken the world by storm. The green flavour has, in a short time, gone from relative obscurity to omnipresence.

The first etiquette book I ever read was Peter Post's Essential Manners for Men (2003). Peter was the husband of Emily Post, who for years was the country’s foremost writer and expert on all things ...

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A couple of years ago, Pokémon introduced a new monster: Poltchageist, a “Grass/Ghost type” with special abilities in “hospitality” and being “heatproof.” It is wily and homicidal; it is also matcha.

So many Americans start their day with a cup (or two) of coffee. Yet as popular as Java is in the U.S., other parts of the world tend to favor other sources of caffeine. Matcha, for example, which ...

Once consumed mainly in small, formal tea ceremonies, matcha is now mixed into fruity lattes and preyed on by counterfeiters. Can it survive its own popularity? “It’s like the Wild West,” one tea ...