https://darioaranguiz.com/tags/tea/ Recent content in tea on Dario Aranguiz Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://darioaranguiz.com/posts/2025-11-23-burnout-and-why-i-make-sweets-copy/ Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://darioaranguiz.com/posts/2025-11-23-burnout-and-why-i-make-sweets-copy/ See also Wagashi Resources (Acknowledgements) for a related post. At some point in my tea career, I decided to be the “wagashi guy.” It wasn’t necessarily a conscious choice. Some events that happened over the years: Back at Japan House, we had fresh omogashi every lesson. I joined as many Wagashi Issho workshops as I could in Japan. I volunteered to be part of the sweets committee for our Midorikai Christmas Chakai and helped my senpai churn out a hundred (? https://darioaranguiz.com/posts/2024-07-12-wagashi-resources/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://darioaranguiz.com/posts/2024-07-12-wagashi-resources/ I have been making sweets for every tea class for a couple years now. I’m still learning constantly, and failing frequently, but I’ve gotten to a point where I’m usually comfortable serving what I’ve made to the students. You can see some of my more recent sweets below. My first tea teacher, Kimiko Gunji-sensei, just released a new wagashi cookbook in English called Wagashi: Season by Season which got me thinking about the resources I’ve used to make sweets. https://darioaranguiz.com/posts/2024-07-10-how-i-started-tea/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://darioaranguiz.com/posts/2024-07-10-how-i-started-tea/ My journey with tea started in 2014. I was beginning my final year of undergrad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and I was going through depression. My coursework and thesis were overwhelming, and I found myself needing a break from engineering. I had no prior interest in Japanese culture at this point, and no prior contact with tea, but I knew I had to do something different from my regular coursework. https://darioaranguiz.com/tea/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://darioaranguiz.com/tea/ Check out my blog post on getting into tea to read about how it all started. Wagashi # I love to make traditional Japanese sweets, and I make something different for tea class every week. The gallery below shows some of my more recent sweets. For more, check out my profile on Instagram.