Then and Now: Oregon Tea, 10 Years After the Bet on American-Grown Tea
In 2016 an Oregon farm bet great tea could grow in the US. A killing winter, $38-an-ounce tea and the 2025 tariffs: what happened next.
-
-
Is the Coffee and Tea Festival NYC Still Happening? What Became of It and Its 2019 Tea Booths
Is the Coffee and Tea Festival NYC still on? What happened to it, and to the tea booths I photographed in 2019: Mansa Tea, Ippodo, Teapasar, Teavana and more.
-
NYC Bubble Tea 15 Years Later: Ten Ren vs Xing Fu Tang FiDi (2026)
NYC Boba Then vs Now Latest Update: April 25, 2026 – Bubble tea’s still NYC’s obsession. Just yesterday, I tweeted about Xing Fu Tang opening in FiDi across from Printemps. Their brown sugar deerioca milk tea takes the classic to new heights—more on that below. Back in 2011, I first encountered bubble tea in Flushing, Queens. Every…
