Author Archives for Fumiko Sasaki

Saving the World with Tea


Sprezzatura! Renaissance!

Sympathy for the Kettle is a subtle tea house which curiously appeared one day. Like the subtle forces of tea it is a powerful magnet in the community for anything that ails you. In the small tea house lined with creative concoctions designed exclusively by and only for Sympathy for the […]

“Groove is in the heart of Tea” at Tavalon’s new tea bar!


“Groove is in the heart” É Tavalon’s Tea Bar!
Tea is in the house!
Tavalon tea bar is Manhattans newest urban Tea party from outer space. Tea without the gravity? “Are you down with it?”
You get to travel light alright, groovin with congas and a Dee-jay up above […]

Oh My Darjeeling First Flush


Every year connoisseurs eagerly await Darjeeling Nouveau…. This is the springtime harvest of tea known as the first flush. The Darjeeling district is famous for producing teas with the most exquisite bouquets, they are the best and most delicate of the India teas. Some 87 tea gardens are set within the foothills of the magnificent […]

Fumiko Sasaki - Bio


Fumiko Sasaki’s life is steeped in tea. Half Cajun, half Japanese, her grandfather was the Zen Master who taught Alan Watts and her great grandmother, the daughter of a Tea Ceremony Master, founded a famous chain of Japanese teahouses. For over two decades she has been blending and consulting on taste, treatment, and purchase of […]

Fumiko Sasaki

Fumiko Sasaki’s life is steeped in tea. Half Cajun, half Japanese, her grandfather was the Zen Master who taught Alan Watts and her great grandmother, the daughter of a Tea Ceremony Master, founded a famous chain of Japanese teahouses. For over two decades she has been blending and consulting on taste, treatment, and purchase of teas for many of the major tea distributors, retailers, and houses such as Wild Lily Tea Room, Takashima, T Salon, In Pursuit of Tea, and Whole Foods of New York City as well as a specialist in rare Darjeeling tea varietals. She is currently working with many lush Darjeeling Gardens in continuing efforts to carry unique varietals here in the U.S.A.