I wasn’t trying to build a tea database, or even a traditional “map.” What I wanted to understand was how tea behaves differently depending on where it grows—and how to express that visually without flattening everything into the same category labels. Tea isn’t just leaves and regions. It’s climate, ritual, migration, adaptation, and sometimes absence. […]

Continue Reading »

Lately I’ve been building out a small cast of fictional chefs for my WordPress project, and it’s become one of the most unexpectedly useful exercises in my development journey. On the surface, they’re just imaginary people who specialize in marzipan, chocolate, teas, pastries, or whatever direction I take them. But the real purpose goes deeper: […]

Continue Reading »