Eighty degrees tea magazine - Issue 17

Eighty – Issue 17: Stillness is not the absence of movement. It is the moment before you remember you are being watched. Issue 17 works in that register — the unguarded, the unhurried, the briefly unself-conscious. A jasmine harvest in Guangxi, where the flowers must be picked at night because that is when they open. Landscape architecture as a form of listening to a place. Tea and hip hop in Miami, a pairing that makes more sense the longer you sit with it. Iranian tea culture, patient and precise and largely unknown to the outside world. Each story in this issue arrived from a moment of not trying too hard. That is harder to achieve than it sounds. About Eighty - taste is culture: Eighty is an independent magazine about tea — published three times a year, each issue built around a single theme. We commission long-form interviews, field reports, and essays that treat tea as a subject worth serious attention: the people who grow, make, and use it; the design and craft it touches; the culture it moves through. We don't publish brewing guides, product rankings, or trend coverage. Each issue is printed on heavy paper, made in Portugal, and read in 69 countries. Founded in Lisbon, 2018.