Tea Trade – A Digital Ocean of Tea

AJ posted an update 3 days, 1 hour ago

…Uhoh, there goes the rest of them
AJ posted an update 5 days, 2 hours ago

Good news: I’ve regained the ability to post to the feed (though I still have the ability to edit other people’s posts, oops). Bad news: all my images broke.

To copy over what I tried to reply with earlier: @Peter {{Hey Peter, it’s nice to see you popping in. Book reviews necessitate a bit of a slow post-rate, which at least means I won’t run out…[Read more]
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 1 week, 2 days ago

Book: The Chinese Art of TeaThis has been considered a favourite and a recommended read of many English-speaking tea-drinkers for many years, which meant it was low on my own priority Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Book: Urasenke Chado Textbook This was intended to be the last post of 2024, but I suppose it’ll just have to be the first post of this year (four months in). This copy was leant to me by Continue reading
peter posted an update 2 months, 3 weeks ago

>>>>>> @Peter From AJ: Oops, found a bug. I can’t reply to posts, but I can edit *other* people’s posts!

{{Hey Peter, it’s nice to see you popping in. Book reviews necessitate a bit of a slow post-rate, which at least means I won’t run out of topics anytime soon. I always figured I’d eventually have to migrate to a new host, but I’ve never been…[Read more]
peter posted an update 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Discovered a problem with the main navigation. That is fixed now!
iheartteas wrote a new post on the site iHeartTeas 5 months, 2 weeks ago

PIVOT!!! I am back but this time it’s going to be different. For the time I will be posting to iHeartTeas and I hope you don’t mind me expanding the[…]
- teaformeplease replied 5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  I’m sorry to hear about everything you’re dealing with, but it made my heart so happy to see a new post from you pop up in my feed!
  - iheartteas replied 5 months ago
    
    Thank you so much 😊
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 6 months ago

Book: The Japanese Tea Ceremony Often, small books like this aren’t really worth reviewing. At least not in terms of their informational merit and use as reference material. I picked up Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 6 months, 1 week ago

2024 Tea Festivals It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I attended a friend’s chamei chakai, followed back to back by three Tea Festivals—Tea Gorgeous Equinox, the Northw Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Book: Green Gold: The Political Economy of China's Post-1949 Tea IndustryI don’t normally have to include the full subtitle of a book, but as I’ve got two books, by different authors, both titled ‘Green Gold’ (and I fully intend to Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Book: The Teahouse This book deals with a very specific topic, that of teahouse culture in Chengdu, Sichuan from the 1900s to 1950, so it’s unlikely to appeal to a broader tea e Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 11 months, 4 weeks ago

Book: Darjeeling: A History of the World's Greatest Tea Koehler’s descriptions paint a very visual narrative; having read several more technical, dry manufacturing guides on Sri Lankan and Indian tea processing, Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 1 year, 2 months ago

2023 In Review So, unfortunately the Vancouver Tea Festival was cancelled in 2022, and didn’t resurface for 2023 either. It hasn’t had a proper event since 2020, but I’ve Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 1 year, 10 months ago

Book: Tea and Tea Dealing Unsurprisingly, I picked this book out at the library for its blending section. I like reading first-hand, antiqued accounts of what goes into blends, and Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 2 years, 1 month ago

Book: Tea Life, Tea Mind Having had this book sitting on my shelf for quite a while now, I kept passing it over for newer, more exciting acquisitions. I finally pulled it out to Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 2 years, 2 months ago

Book: Tasting Qualities This book has been on my list for a while, especially as Besky has another work out (“The Darjeeling Distinction”); but it wasn’t something I was going out of Continue reading
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 2 years, 9 months ago

I’ll usually swing back around to this blog with a pretty dire opinion of my activity, but if I can manage four posts a year (in both 2021 and 2020!), then I’m pretty happy with myself. (Even if I did read months […]
AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 3 years, 3 months ago

This is part of a series of “Philosophy Of” books. I had trouble finding much on the ‘series’, but it looks like each (or most) was written by a different blogger or other influencer/social media presence. I […]
Robert Godden wrote a new post on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years, 3 months ago

I’m here to say goodbye.

I just read that there is now an oyster-vending machine in my home town, and I think that’s a perfect way to introduce my last ever blog post. The oyster, that snot-textured harbinger […]
- Robert Godden replied 3 years, 3 months ago
  
  Thank you. It’s great to know you.
- lochantea replied 3 years, 3 months ago
  
  Farewell my friend 🙏🇮🇳🍵as far as tea is concerned ❤️
Robert Godden wrote a new post on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years, 3 months ago

Well, dear fans, I, your Lord Devotea, have some news for you.

So, there’s this guy called Robert Godden. Many of you know him. I know him well. He invented me! Yes, shockingly, I am not real.

His wife […]
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