Change Log: 6/9/2026
Book:
- No Changes.
Other Content:
- Published Editorial Conversation: Research Trip 2026: Menghai (勐海) - Post Trip.
- Published Editorial Conversation: Chapter 11, Section 2 & 3: Tie Rong (铁熔) and Tu Hei (吐黑).
Updates:
- I am so incredibly behind on the next chapter of the book; lots of work, life, and the research trip all conspired into compounding delays. In mostly good news: there will be a very long and in-depth trip report for Menghai published soon which greatly distracted me from writing about Yixing for the last month or so; then the next chapter on Qing dynasty Yixing teapot design will be about ~100 pages or so. So: thank you for your patience, I apologize, and there will be lots of new writing up very soon.
- I am giving a talk "Rare Yixing Teapot Tasting With Jason Cohen of Tea Technique" at In Pursuit of Tea, on Wednesday, June 17th, 6 - 8pm. Tickets are available.
- Our next Talk, Taste, Triage event is scheduled for Tuesday, June 23rd at 5:30pm - 7:30pm and Monday, June 29th at 6pm - 8pm.
- Talk, Taste, Triage is a recurring small group gathering of tea practitioners where readers can ask questions, request experiments, and learn about specific types of tea. Guests are welcome to bring tea and tea wares for identification, troubleshooting, and critique.
- Subscribers are also most welcome to join us without any topics or troubleshooting in mind - there's always good tea from my collection to taste and enjoy together.
- To help us with capacity planning, we ask everyone to RSVP: if you plan to attend a Talk, Taste, Triage event, please reply to the Change Log email or text Jason. If you have special requests for tastings or experiments, please include the idea in your RSVP - this gives me a chance to select teas and plan out the best way to accomplish the ideal tasting sequence; incomplete ideas are totally OK, we can figure it out together. No need to over-plan: I can usually handle tea and ware ID without prior research or references, so don't feel bad about grabbing a last minute tea or a recently arrived ware.
- Subscribers are welcome to bring 1 guest.
