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Xavier commented on the post, The Real Tea, on the site Steep Stories 1 week, 4 days ago

Impressive!
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Real Tea, on the site Steep Stories 1 week, 5 days ago

In the late-aughts (meaning: 2000-2009), my tea journey paralleled another hobby.

YouTube.

Since I worked the graveyard shift for most of the first decade of this century, I devoured a lot of content on […]
Xavier posted an update 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Two quotes from @lazyliteratus

https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/Small-tea-maker-makes-it-big-in-Darjeeling
Xavier commented on the post, DIY: Tea Boat, on the site Tea Stacks 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Interesting. I never thought about doing my own tea boat.
Mmm. Something I should perhaps give some thoughts to.
supermoon10 wrote a new post, DIY: Tea Boat, on the site Tea Stacks 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Unfortunately, draft and account problems persist, and I didn’t really have the willpower to completely retype this post in Word knowing that I would have to then reformat it once I pasted it into wordpress… S […]
Xavier commented on the post, A Tea Menu I Loved, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 1 week ago

I never saw both together (by both I mean bag and loose).
Robert Godden commented on the post, A Tea Menu I Loved, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 1 week ago

Thank you for your kind comments, Karla. The “Boston tea Party” (it wasn’t named that until decades after the event) didn’t significantly reduce American tea consumption for over 100 years, so no-one that was […]
Robert Godden commented on the post, The Tea Trade Quartet, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 1 week ago

You’re welcome. I do love your blog.
Robert Godden wrote a new post, A Tea Menu I Loved, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 1 week ago

It’s fair to say that when we are out and about, we do not always love the tea menu.

If one is at a specialised tea house, then there’s likely a fair chance. Even if it’s a specialised, specialised tea house, […]
Xavier commented on the post, The Tea Trade Quartet, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 1 week ago

Thanks for the nice words.
Xavier commented on the post, Unsung hero, on the site Teaconomics 1 month, 1 week ago

A bit too wide away to have a look at it.
Robert Godden wrote a new post, The Tea Trade Quartet, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 1 month, 2 weeks ago

It’s been three months since I last wrote a tea blog post, which is about three times slacker than my longest previous gap. Over seven years and many words – this will be my 395th blog post on this site (after […]
Robert Godden commented on the post, Unsung hero, on the site Teaconomics 1 month, 2 weeks ago

There’s a genuine Wardian case at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Hobart, a simple but incredibly effective device.
Xavier commented on the post, The Smoked Darjeelings of Niroula’s Tea Farm, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 2 weeks ago

It reminds me (but not with the ethical goal behind this factory) of how Champagne producers are working: some make their own Champagne wine and others (the big names usually) are just putting together wine grapes […]
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Smoked Darjeelings of Niroula’s Tea Farm, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 2 weeks ago

In November of 2012, I accidentally “created” a smoked Darjeeling.

I say “accidentally” and put arbitrary air-quotes over “created” because . . . that’s only kinda what happened. One fateful day, I put a […]
Xavier wrote a new post, Unsung hero, on the site Teaconomics 1 month, 2 weeks ago

We all know about Robert Fortune and the British East India Company (for a really small summary, you can look there) in the spreading of tea from China to India (I will not go on the topic about the different […]
Xavier commented on the post, The Ruckus over Ruan Zhi, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Did you try to speak with Fox Mulder about this theory of yours? If he doesn’t drink tea, you are in for the Tea Files.
lazyliteratus commented on the post, The Ruckus over Ruan Zhi, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Thanks Valerii. I incorporated the new data into the write-up.
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Ruckus over Ruan Zhi, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ruan Zhi—or “soft stem”— is a particular cultivated variety (or cultivar) of tea plant originally hailing from China, before making its way to Taiwan, and then migrating further along to Thailand and Myanmar […]
Xavier commented on the post, Going to Gopaldhara by way of Boulder, Colorado, on the site Steep Stories 2 months ago

You have quite a net of people relating to surprising teas.
I am always amazed when I read your posts.
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