On the wedding day, Vietnamese couples often wear traditional ao dai outfits. The bride usually wears red or pink, as these ...

was thought to have been developed by house slaves during the final decades before Emancipation. No one knows how the Tea Ceremony got entangled with Valentine’s Day celebrations, but by the mid-19th ...

TOKYO — Clad in an elegant kimono of pale green, tea ceremony instructor Keiko Kaneko uses a tiny wooden spoon to place a speck of matcha into a porcelain bowl. She froths up the special powdered ...

It’s not easy to find serenity when memories come flooding in. By Steve Knopper My fiancée, Meredith, and I were sitting crossed-legged on cushions around a low wooden table with the tea ceremonialist ...

The Japanese word for a tea ceremony, chanoyu, can be translated literally as “hot water for tea.” But the term chanoyu has also become associated with an entire formalized practice of preparing and ...