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Genmaicha Green - Water Can’t Make This Flavour
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There are toasted grains of rice in this genmaicha, a few burst open and white, and the warmth they carry is something the water in your cup can’t make. Not at seventy-five degrees. Not in two minutes. It was made somewhere else, somewhere dry and far hotter, before the kettle went on. It’s the same reason a boiled sausage stays the colour of an apology. And it’s why the gentlest parts of an ordinary morning so often trace back to a room you were never in.
Today's cup: Genmaicha — Camellia sinensis and brown rice.
1 tsp, 200mL, 75°C, two minutes. It takes a second infusion.
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