STEEPED BY SAMIA #33 | 08.27.24 South Asian women make the coolest, yummiest, and most innovative chai. Stovetop chai is how my dad and I start every morning. The smell of chai wafting from the kitchen is a welcoming scent. Its milky sweet, lulling, yet invigorating embrace eases me into the day. In the pastContinue reading “Steep On This: South Asian women-owned chai businesses to sip & support”
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Will I always be in a liminal space?
STEEPED BY SAMIA #14 | 12.29.22 A rainy morning, a wallower, & an interior monologue on in-betweenness. I wake up before my family and start making chai. Oatly full fat oat milk. Wagh Bakri black tea. Water. A splash of Kirkland evaporated milk. A scuffed metal pot, an old strainer, our designated chai spoon. IContinue reading “Will I always be in a liminal space?”
Tea recipes for all your moods this fall
During my first year of postgrad, I can definitively tell you that I’ve been drinking a lot of good tea and mastered how I like to make it. So, you’re going to get all those fun details of what teas I like and how I prepare it. I definitely want to (spoiler alert: it’s notContinue reading “Tea recipes for all your moods this fall”