I’m Pau, a tea farmer in Wazuka, a small village in Japan. Raw, Grilled, Boiled is where I share the food and culture I’m learning here, with a weakness for regionality and hyperlocal foods.

Lost at the highest tea field in Japan. Image credit: George Guttridge-Smith from People of Tea
Topics range from sustainability and preservation projects to slicing vegetables and farming rice. Every post starts from the local land and the people who know it best. I research and field-test as I go, so some posts arrive matured, some served fresh.
Raw, Grilled, Boiled is where I share the food and culture I’m learning here, with a weakness for regionality and hyperlocal foods.

Winter landscape of the Nakayama terraced rice paddies on Shodoshima island, Japan
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