Ingredients · Other
Popcorn
Zea mays · Poaceae (grass family)
What it’s like, and how to use it
- 185°F / 85°C
- 1 to 2 minutes, as part of genmaicha
How to use it
Steeped along with the rice and green tea. Nothing else to do with it.
With food
Whatever genmaicha is drunk with — rice, grilled fish, pickles.
With spices
Sesame. Ginger.
With tea
Sencha and bancha, in genmaicha.
Its story
Where it comes from
Our lot names no origin. Maize is a plant of the Americas, domesticated in Mexico, which makes the white puffs in a Japanese tea an accidental piece of the Columbian exchange.
What happened
Genmaicha's rice was a filler that made tea cheaper — people's tea, in a country where the shaded leaf was restricted to the upper classes. The popping is incidental to the roasting rather than the point of it, which is worth knowing if you have ever wondered whether someone stands over a pan making popcorn for tea. Nobody does.
On the shelf with it
Every product it goes into.
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Genmaicha, Organic
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