Ric Swenson on mon 18 may 09
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ok...........you know the Chinese have believed for several thousand years =
that drinking cold beverages cause the fat in food to coagulate and become =
firm and cause fat to cause hardening of the arteries...loss of blood flow.=
..strokes, etc...
..it does make some sense....ok....weigh -in Dr. Edouarde....medicine says =
what?
I too have always loved iced drinks...but now I think it over...maybe the C=
hinese have a point.
Chinese tea cups are VERY small.....maybe 1/10th the size of Japanese tea b=
owls....no masha...just hot green tea for the most part.... Not shared with=
others.... your own small tea bowl...tiny bowls......
Whe you enter a Chinese home you are offered hot water. Good for your heal=
th and digestion....
China, as the the origin of tea...at first an herbal medicine...3,000 or 5,=
000 years ago.....now a beverage for daily consumption....
and when did Japanese think of tea as a daily drink?....800 years ago? sma=
ll comparison....IMHO. Zen versus real life.
Compare the tea cermony of Japan to that of China. Some different. A cult i=
n japan...a daily drink in China.
I love to make tea bowls off the hump an an exercise in throwing....but mos=
tly they are sold to hold paperclips and pens....I do raku to see what I ca=
n do in the fire.....mostly not very practible...but I enjoy the exercise..=
...loose throwing...off the hump....stretch the muscles....learn the clay..=
...throw a thousand in one day?...ok mel...have at it. 100 is enough for me=
in one day....and I have done that.
Handles just add the conveniece of holding the bowl without burning your ha=
nds....depends how cold you feel I suppose...
so young....the history of our art....and so old too.
Some exercises in pottery equate to the seder ( I had matzo for lunch today=
....thanks to Judy Motzkin of Cambridge, MA) or the tea ceremony...( than=
ks Lee...drank some tea this morning...)...I appreciate both....but do not =
consider them essential to my life as a lutefisk eater.... a born again vik=
ing...Norse....norsk.
We all have a different view of the importance of food and drink. Your mat=
zo is my lutefisk ....is their matsha ...it in reality...is anothers' poiso=
n.
A point of view...
have fun with it friends.
flame on....
Ric
> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:20:10 -0700
> From: priddyclay@YAHOO.COM
> Subject: Southern US winter and summer tea ware
> To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>
> In the southern US, a winter tea bowl and a summer tea bowl actually have=
two distinct sets of properties. We do not drink much hot tea down here. =
But in the winter, our tea bowl is a mug. Summer "tea bowls" are the larg=
est tumblers you can find to hold as much ice as possible for your tea, and=
they have throwing rings to keep the condensation from making your glass t=
oo slippery to hold.
>
> I just made a tea pitcher in my wood kiln. I can brew it open in the pit=
cher and then add ice to serve, and the iron glaze looks just like tea!
>
> My tea pitcher holds about a 1/2 gallon of tea. I boil water, fill the p=
itcher to 1/2 full, put in 1/3 cups of sugar to dissolve, then add two fami=
ly size tea bags or 4 Twinnings Chai tea, wait 4-6 minutes, remove bags, fi=
ll pitcher with water and pour over cups of ice. Yes, its that time of yea=
r already.
>
> As the tea is diluted with ice, this actually translated to a full gallon=
of tea.
>
> On a roll in NC.
>
> Elizabeth Priddy
> Beaufort, NC - USA
>
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Lee Love on mon 18 may 09
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2009/5/18 Ric Swenson :
> ok...........you know the Chinese have believed for several thousand year=
s that drinking cold >beverages cause the fat in food to coagulate and beco=
me firm and cause fat to cause >hardening of the arteries...loss of blood f=
low...strokes, etc...
Ric, Probably cold drinks aren't good with some foods but are often
appropriate alone. You know, in Japan, they didn't used to let
kids drink water during sports training. They had a few kids die of
heat stroke and realized that the old idea that drinking water while
trainer was a sign of weakness was wrong, and started providing cold
water during training in the hot summer.
Kobo Daiishi first brought tea to Japan in the 9th century.
It wasn't grown in Japan until the 13th century, five centuries before
our country was created. They have lost some traditions that
originated in China, but were preserved in Japan, like the drinking of
whisked and powdered tea.
--
"The tea ceremony bowl is the ceramic equivalent of a sonnet: a
small-scale, seemingly constricted form that challenges the artist to
go beyond mere technical virtuosity and find an approach that both
satisfies and transcends the conventions." -- Rob Sliberman
Elizabeth Priddy on mon 18 may 09
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I opened two jars of peaches this winter for my toast.
=3DA0
One was new from the supermarket, perfect, as usual.
=3DA0
One was from my great aunt Elgia.=3DA0 She was 92=3DA0year before last=3DA0=
and sh=3D
e had her own peach trees.=3DA0 I opened the jar with memories of peaches i=
n =3D
sweet syrup on her warm biscuits fresh from the oven...
=3DA0
The fruit had turned, mold all over the top, ugly and dangerous to eat from=
=3D
.=3DA0 She had missed the seal on that jar.=3DA0=3D20
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Moral:=3DA0 Not every thing that is preserved is good for you.
Elizabeth Priddy
Beaufort, NC - USA
- Just yankin' your chain there a little...
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--- On Mon, 5/18/09, Lee Love wrote:
From: Lee Love
Subject: Re: Southern US winter and summer tea ware.. vs China and Japan...=
=3D
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To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 9:43 AM
=3DA0They have lost some traditions that
originated in China, but were preserved in Japan, like the drinking of
whisked and powdered tea.
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