Its antioxidants do much to increase good cholesterol and decrease bad cholesterol. A cup of matcha contains as much as 137 times as much of these highly beneficial compounds as a cup of regular green tea, which was already very healthful. It contains powerful antioxidants called catechins. There’s very little in the world that’s better for you than matcha. We’re here to think about that fine green dust and the goodness it can impart even outside the ceremony it so richly deserves. It’s a fascinating subject, but that’s not what we’ll discuss today. To this day, people in Japan and elsewhere spend months studying and learning the tea ceremony, a body-mind-soul exercise that combines ritual with deep meaning, that lasts for hours. Its effects on those who consumed it are so salutary that a whole culture grew up around it. “Matcha” is literally “ground tea.” The dust then has to be carefully stored, because it is delicate stuff. The leaves would go on to be ground, as I said, to dust between chilled rock grindstones. The flat bamboo scoop measures the matcha powder in the traditional way, though you needn’t go through all of this in order to enjoy matcha and its many benefits. Later, it was learned that the qualities of those early leaves could be enhanced by covering the plants for the month or so before harvest - the plants would work to make up for the lost sunlight by pumping all the goodness they could muster into those shaded leaves.
This dust, mixed in water of the proper temperature, produces a drink that is good for body, mind, and soul. The very topmost leaves of the tea plant were harvested in early spring, immediately dried before the fermentation that gives us black tea could take place, and ground to dust. At its best, matcha, too, smells like freshly mowed grass, and tastes, well, green.īefore original sin gave rise to dark-side entities such as “marketers” who would invent words like “superfoods,” a particular formulation of green tea was known to possess remarkably beneficial properties. Not every so often, not as the occasional novelty, but as part of your daily routine. And unlike the drummers for overpriced and questionable products, I do not benefit in any way from telling you about it, beyond the belief that if you listen and follow my advice, people I like will live longer and happier lives. It won’t just prevent your feeling worse, it will make you feel better. Having said that, I’m here to tell you about one, something you ought to be consuming every single day.
The once semi-respectable Mike Huckabee, who will now go on television and flack for anything, it seems, is among the patent-medicine and other nutritional product tub thumpers who join lawyers and a bedding manufacturer in keeping Fox News on the air. We’re always looking for easy remedies, the pill or something we can take that solves all our problems. Our bodies, it seems, also default to eating stuff that’s not good for us, but again we can take charge. Just as important as exercise is nutrition. Our bodies, it seems, default to “lazy” mode. The rule is do all the exercise you think you can, then about 10 percent more. Mowing is good exercise, and no matter what stage you are in life, exercise is important. I fear that in some disreputable countries it might be thought of as a matcha harvester. The mighty (though sadly discontinued) Swisher and its vanquished foe. They make ‘em good in Missouri, except that when a friend overseas asked me about it, I checked and learned that it is no longer manufactured, which is a shame. My amazing Swisher mower pulled through like a champ yet again. The mowing is finally done, at least for now, and the whole area carries the invigorating scent of newly mown grass.
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