What's the Matcha with you?
These days the internet is abuzz with the health benefits of matcha, and how it is the best antioxidant there is. This is very similar coconut oil trend (or the goji berries trend) that seems to have spread like wildfire recently. I can’t recall a single get-together in recent time where coconut oil hasn’t somehow popped up in the discussion, and how the women start to swoon over its benefits (I like it too and have used it for my soap making among other things), but this benefits of coconut oil business isn’t exactly a new discovery you know! Anyway, now that matcha is all over the internet and is the new black coffee these days so let me attempt at providing a few basics here before someone pops up the ‘have you tried Matcha?’ question or suggests a trip to the Matchabar in NYC or a fancy Matcha Cafe. Meeting your Matcha: In Japanese (and in Hindi!), CHA means tea, and MA means powder...so Matcha simply means is powdered...