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peter posted an update 19 hours ago
Hi all, @supermoon10 had let me know this week that there was a problem with Tea Trade. I’ve sorted that out and you can resume drinking your cuppas as normal!
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Lockdown and the Opportunity, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 week, 6 days ago
As has been observed many times, tea is a simple process. Put leaves in a pot or gaiwan, add water, wait, pour. While you can get better at it, and use better tea, it’s an essentially achievable process.
As I […]
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Who could disagree with such a logical approach?
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Valiant Fusion, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 4 weeks, 1 day ago
In about 1992, we acquired a 1972 Valiant for Lady Devotea to drive.
We asked my Dad – who was a car dealer – to find us a small, second hand 4-cylinder car at a modest price as we didn’t have much money, and a […]
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A Valliant? I need to try this tea.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Everything Old Is New Again, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month ago
Mr Bob Egle died in June 1971.
Mr Jethro Batt became very ill in October 1971
Mr Fred Biggs died in November 1971.
The men all had a number of similarities. They had gastrointestinal symptoms similar to […]
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This is why toasts were invented but with a cup of tea, it is not that easy to do.
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I agree!
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Gifts of the Doke River, on the site Steep Stories 1 month ago
In July, a very 2020 thing happened.
I shattered a gaiwan lid. Even “funnier”? This was the second such gaiwan lid I’d shattered this year. My luck with even the most basic teaware was middling at best. […]
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Our trip begins and ends with water.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Of tea and spirits, on the site Teaconomics 1 month, 1 week ago
After a hiatus, I am back. After reading a (or should I say the since it is at the same time big and focusing on many different lesser known topics) biography about one of the most influential writers of the 20th […]
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Honestly, I think “Tea and Delicate Breasts”should be your next blog.
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I could tell you but then you would have to drink Japanese tea.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Biscuits as Medicine, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Kale, eh?
The super-darling super-food of the super-earnest, it has a super-reputation for super-godliness like some super-evangelist, think Jimmy Swaggart, just before it turned out had a super-saucy […]
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Do we eat them and drink or drink and eat them?
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BOTH!
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Green Tea from Bhutan, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Did you know they grow tea in Bhutan?
Well, until a few months ago, neither did I.
Long time readers of this blog (all three of you) will remember that my original mission statement was to track down […]
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It makes sense that tea is produced in Bhutan but I had never heard anything about it.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Ivan Chai through Time, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 2 weeks ago
If there is one prediction I never would have made for this blog in 2020, it’s that I would spend at least five articles talking about one plant. Okay . . . true, there are four hundred articles here that talk a […]
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And does it have the kick-off effect caffeine has on most people?
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Back-to-Back Matcha Bowls, on the site Steep Stories 3 months ago
I recently noticed I don’t cover a lot of matcha on this here blog. There are some completely innocuous reasons for that: (1) everyone is already covering matcha just fine, and (2) when I do cover matcha, I tend t […]
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“But I later learned that was actually a good thing.”
Where did you learn that?
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AJ wrote a new post, Book: The Stonewares of Yixing, on the site Tea Stacks 3 months, 1 week ago
I love this book. It’s presented in an oversized coffee table-style layout, with plates of colour and grey-scale photos from museums. But it also contains a textbook level of information, going into detail about […]
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It focuses only on Chinese teapots, doesn’t it?
Nothing on Japanese or European?-
Yes. Only on Yixing teapots. But some on their export and influences on Europe and Japan.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Unforgivable, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months, 2 weeks ago
In Russia, tea is an important part of culture and society. When you tell a taxi driver or waiter to “keep the change”, in Russian you literally say “the rest is for tea”.
Of course, Russian Caravan tea is an […]
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Charlatans, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Today, I’d like to share with you an exercise in improving our corporate logo. Here it is, in case you’ve forgotten:
Lovely, isn’t it?
But I started to wonder if something was missing. So, I […]
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I think in English you write something along the year to mean it was founded in, don’t you?
But you are right, no one would.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Ukrainian Ivan Chai . . . from Canada, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Back in June, I was tagged in an Instagram post by O5 Tea. It featured a very familiar plant.
Pedro, one of the tea outfit’s co-owners referenced my first Ivan Chai article to go along with something they j […]
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You really go where no one has gone before.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, The Gift That Keeps on Giving, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months, 2 weeks ago
As those of you who hold a small celebration every time I post a blog post will be aware, December 22, 2019 was such a day. In that piece, I announced that the gift of spending some time and having some tea with […]
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Cheers for a great tea day with Lord Devotea himself.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Bordering on Sheng Puerh, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Let’s talk about border sheng.
As long-time readers already know, I’m a bit of an old hat (and advocate) of sheng cha produced outside of Yunnan province, China. I’ve devoted the last decade or so to tryin […]
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Interesting thoughts.
I need to think about it.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Tea Timing, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months, 3 weeks ago
NOTE: I wrote this for The Devotea’s joint sales site with Baristador coffee. Reproduced here for those who subscribe to this blog.
This past few days have seen the first iteration of the new arrangement for us […]
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Such a dedicated customer service.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Steeping With The Enemy, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 4 months ago
Let me tell you about a guy who is, frankly, a bit of a lunatic.
He’s veeeeeerrrrry fussy about the way he brews his beverages. Not just because he likes to control water temperature and water/raw material […]
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A second Devotea?
This is impossible.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Where Eagles Dare, on the site Teaconomics 4 months ago
After learning that Japanese beef was graded with a two dimensional system (A, B, C and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), I had thought I could work on the reason behind the different grades in tea (the most known being in the […]
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That was brilliantly all over the place. Loved it.
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Thanks.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Meet Herb, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 1 week ago
Meet Herb.
Herb is a tea pet. What’s a tea pet, you might be asking? Well, it’s a long story, and—honestly—one I haven’t taken much interest in. Until now.
There is no clear origin story about how […]
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Ah. Ostfriesen. I went there and drank tea.
And I like Herb drinking in your cup.
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Thanks.
Yay!