Interview with James Green, KyuTeaCo

In this episode, cohosts Ryan and Zongjun (Sam) interview James Green, founder of KyuTeaCo (Kyushu Tea Company), a Wisconsin-based brand working directly with eight small family farms across Kyushu. Topics range from James’s host family in Fukuoka in 1998 and his JET year in rural Ukiha, to selecting farmers prefecture by prefecture, importing without distributors or exclusivity agreements, hojicha and genmaicha as the next step after matcha, and why “ceremonial” and “Uji” labeled on matcha tell you nothing.

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