What’s brewing? How Jackson Boxer learnt to slow down on a Chinese tea trail

On a daily basis, I extract from Longjing (or Dragon Well) tea a beautiful, sweet, nutty elixir. Its delicate, flat, jade-green leaf grows exclusively on the hills around West Lake in Hangzhou, China; and for more than 1,000 years it has been celebrated as the highest expression of Chinese green tea, picked in spring and tossed by calloused hands around an enormous, blazing-hot wok to prevent oxidation and…