Site-Wide Activity
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Xavier wrote a new post, Are they all doing the same?, on the site Teaconomics 10 hours, 16 minutes ago
Innovation is a big word, one that is used all around us. All companies need to innovate to thrive or we all need to use the latest and most innovative concept/app/product…
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, An Ivan Chai Diary, on the site Steep Stories 2 days, 22 hours ago
At the beginning of May (of 2020), I received a box from Moychay . . .
A blogger friend saw the write-up I did on Ivan Chai a couple of months prior, and recommended I get in contact with this Russian-based […]
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And how does it compare to tea?
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AJ wrote a new post, Tea in Quarantine, on the site Tea Stacks 1 week ago
In 1939 the British government expected airstrikes from Germany. So they devised a slogan to keep up civilian moral: Keep Calm and Carry On. There were signs and posters designed for the slogan to be hung in […]
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An old tea blender? How does it work?
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Oops, I just realized I posted a dead link. Here it is in action:
With no tea, but you get the gist. Once it’s properly cleaned up maybe I’ll do another video.
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Yes please do so.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Tea in Star Wars, on the site Steep Stories 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 1
The Rise of the SteamThe kettle boils! A tea geek, locked in his room during quarantine, casually watched an episode of some Star Wars cartoon, and—lo!—a tea pot appeared into view. At first, he […]
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You are opening new roads for me. Tea and Star Wars 😀
I wrote something about tea in sci-fi but I never looked into Star Wars, how wrong of me.
Thanks.
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Dang it, how did I miss that blog?! I’ll have to look.
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Because there was no Star Wars in it?
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Nope, I haven’t written a book, yet.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Biography of a Bing Cha, on the site Steep Stories 3 weeks, 2 days ago
I’ve often expressed my ambivalence to the tea category that is puerh. Sometimes, though, a story about it demands my attention. And most of those times, the story isn’t even mine. Even stranger still? A few of […]
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You are turning into a tea detective 😀
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Heralding the Rose of Wuyi, on the site Steep Stories 1 month ago
This is Dan.
Dan’s a pretty solid dude, and a darn good friend. Dan is also married to my matcha dealer.
Dan’s a lucky sonuva- . . .
I’m getting off-topic already, aren’t I?
Let’s start ove […]
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A Herald of tea. I wish him all the best for this adventure.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?, on the site Teaconomics 1 month ago
This post owns much to the work done by Dr Pim de Zwart from the Wageningen University and Research that published in 2016 a paper in The Journal of Economic History on globalization in the early modern era: new […]
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Nice idea to examine the data. It makes sense
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Tea Love in the Time of COVID, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 1 week ago
Strange times we’re living in, huh?
For those catching this article from somewhere in the future (hopefully a brighter one), this is being written during the COVID-19 lockdown/quarantine. I promised […]
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It seems I missed so much.
And you are right, it is such a peaceful life.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Fairhope Tea Plantation, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 2 weeks ago
As I’ve said many times, it often takes a mere photograph to grab my attention, and to remind me of something I’ve neglected. For instace, this one.
This was posted in August by blogger compatriot (and all […]
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Alabama: name of a submarine/movie and now place where a tea plantation is.
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AJ posted an update 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Hhhuh. Teatra.de’s posting a bit odd and out of order.
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What is odd?
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Age of Honey Orchid, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 3 weeks ago
If there’s one kind of oolong that has the most fantastical origin story, it’s Dan Cong. A name that translates as “single bush or tree”. The story of this tea has its roots in the last days of the Souther […]
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You are young and young at heart.
Out of curiosity how does Honey Orchid taste?
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The young tree stuff tastes like honey . . . and orchids.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Why I Talk About Indian Teas . . . A Lot, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 4 weeks ago
There’s a question I always get from fellow tea heads, and it’s one that has increased in frequency over the last couple of years: “So, what’s the deal with Indian teas?” Or some permutation of that. I’m not sure […]
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I’m on your team
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Team Darjeeling!
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I look forward to tasting those results.
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I am with you and with the others. I am member of the all kinds of tea club.
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As we all should be.
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That was the aim; thanks for seeing that!
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Thanks for chiming in, fellow “Darjeeing guy”.
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Couldn’t agree more, Peter!
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Believe it or not, I didn’t like black teas until I had some exceptional Ceylons and Darjeelings.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Light! More Light!, on the site Teaconomics 2 months ago
I think that Goethe’s last words are more than suited to this rather obscure topic that I teased last time, tea in French Indochina. But perhaps I should start with some explanations for those unfamiliar with t […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Caffeine and Crassicolumna, on the site Steep Stories 2 months ago
In late 2018, various media outlets were all a-buzz about a new (old) discovery.
An as-of-yet uncategorized decaffeinated tea plant in Fujian province, China. Some of the articles exaggerated the claim; […]
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“equaled to two steeps of a lightly brewed var. sinensis Bai Mu Dan white tea. In other words, extremely low”
Now, this is a scale I didn’t know existed.
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It’s perfectly imaginary.
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Which makes it one of the best.
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I agree.
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AJ wrote a new post, VTF 2020, on the site Tea Stacks 2 months, 1 week ago
The best thing about this entire self-quarantine is that all checkout times from the library have been greatly extended and I rarely leave my apartment anyways, so I’m hoarding these books.
So the Festival […]
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Memories Of A Childhood, on the site Beasts Of Brewdom 2 months, 1 week ago
I remember a scene from my childhood as though it were yesterday. I must have been 8 years old, and it was time to catch the train back to school for the term. With my straw boater at a rakish angle and my maroon […]
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The little grey cells working with order and method 😀
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Exactly!
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AJ wrote a new post, Book: Tea. T, Eden, on the site Tea Stacks 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I picked this up from the public library. Unfortunately the last person to have it decided to write in it with a black felt pen of all things. And I know it was recent because in the margins where they decided to […]
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Did you try comparing the different books you read on the tea topic?
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Unfortunately, I couldn’t compare them face to face as I checked them out from different libraries… I did go over my notes, photos and memories of Tea Growing, though. I’ll have to go out and check both of them out some time to give a proper review.
Maybe I’ll wait until I come across a few more books on the subject.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Legend of Ivan Chai, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A couple of years ago, I tried a unique herbal “tea” from Latvia.
It was called “Rosebay Willowherb”. The sample was sent to me by a now-defunct company, and what intrigued me most was the processing method. […]
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Ivan? Like the Tsar?
Did you try digging in that direction?-
Nah, I don’t think it had anything to do with a czar.
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Well, first off, I appreciate ya making the roundabout journey to this here blog via social media. Secondly, I didn’t know that! Thirdly, thank you for all the new information!
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I would pay to see you do a dissertation on a weird herb.
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Xavier wrote a new post, Teaser…, on the site Teaconomics 3 months, 1 week ago
You might remember (Or not, I won’t be offended) that I wrote things about tea in the French colonies. Just in case, here are the links:
I had completely forgotten this topic and while looking at online a […]
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Weird old article hunts like this is what I live for.
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Thanks. I hope the next one will be more interesting.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, "I Don't Want the Game to End.", on the site Steep Stories 4 months ago
Like many with nerdlinger tendencies, I was camped in front of my computer to catch this:
The first episode of Star Trek: Picard.
It was roughly 10PM on a Thursday, and I resisted for all of ten seconds […]
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And the show will go on.
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“Retro-cool” . . . I’ll take it!
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I’ll take any fanning I can get (except fannings grade).
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