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AJ changed their profile picture 1 week ago
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Memories of Mandal Gaon, on the site Steep Stories 3 weeks ago
Mandal Gaon is a village in the state of West Bengal, India—in the Darjeeling region. Like many villages in the area, the inhabitants are mostly of Gurkha descent; a Nepalese ethnic group brought over to India b […]
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AJ wrote a new post, Books to Look Forward to in 2021, on the site Tea Stacks 3 weeks, 3 days ago
I look forward to new releases, even if the sad reality is I only manage to read a couple of Tea Books a year–and usually half a decade after they’ve been published. But that doesn’t mean I can’t share what I’m […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, My Ass-Backwards Journey with An Ji Bai Cha, on the site Steep Stories 4 weeks ago
Over the course of years, I’ve had strange relationships with many teas. I’m kind of a steep-slut that way. But none have been as ass-backwards as my journey with An Ji Bai Cha.
To those who’ve never […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Year of Weird and Wonderful White Teas, on the site Steep Stories 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Toward the end of any year, content creators, influencers, media pundits (social or otherwise) are encouraged to create look-backs or listicles of the year-that-was. Throughout my long and industrious “career” as […]
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Stat!, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 2 weeks ago
It’s hard to buy someone like me a Christmas present. I find it hard to ask for things. I’d rather buy ten gifts for other people. (Specific people, not just randoms.)
But I made two suggestions this […]
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AJ wrote a new post, Book: A Thirst for Empire, on the site Tea Stacks 1 month, 3 weeks ago
This is a heavy book that I have had my eye on for a while. Most new books I’ll wait for in the library, depending on the price. This one was constantly on hold before the quarantine, and finally cleared up when I […]
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This one was already on my to buy list. Now I really have to buy and read it.
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peter posted an update 3 months 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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Thanks.
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Yay!
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Lockdown and the Opportunity, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months, 1 week 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 3 months, 4 weeks 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months, 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 4 months, 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 4 months, 2 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 5 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 6 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 6 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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 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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