Dr. Shah and Keemun
I went to see my cardiologist today. He is a great doctor and last time I went to see him I brought him some tea since I like and appreciate him so much. He is an Indian-American so I thought I would bring him some black tea, and I chose some Keemun, which is one of my favorite teas. Today I asked him how he liked it, and he told me he liked it very much, and said he had never had a flavored tea before. Of course Keemun is not a flavored tea, so I wasn’t sure how to respond.
I didn’t know how to finish this entry, so I asked Andrew and he didn’t really know what to say either, and suggested that I end with a barrage of rhetorical questions about nothing in particular, like has tea become so flavorless in the mainstream experience that tasting real tea can’t be imagined as tea, and other unclear ramblings that I won’t so into. So we are leaving this post perplexed, and Andrew walking away mumbling to himself.
Austin
Posted: November 13th, 2008 under Friends, Tea & Health.
Comments:
Interestingly enough, one of my professors (a royal pain in the posterior) is Indian and I gave him some Spring Dawn Keemun. Not unpredictably, he told me that he hadn’t enjoyed it because he thought it was “too fancy” for his taste. I suggested that he pass it along to a mutual colleague because she and her Indian husband, also not unpredictably, were blown away by it.
That was a year ago; they’re still waiting.
My younger brother, who loves black tea and has a real taste for Assams, and who has a life long history of being a pain, also says that Keemuns are too ‘fancy’ for him. My eldest son, though, is quite the opposite. As we pack up his emergency tea package and tally the cost, I wish he were more like his uncle Gus.
Austin
Great article. Thanks
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