Site-Wide Activity
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Ivan Chai through Time, on the site Steep Stories 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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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Back-to-Back Matcha Bowls, on the site Steep Stories 4 weeks 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 1 month, 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 1 month, 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 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 1 month, 2 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 1 month, 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 2 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 2 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 2 months 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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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Dead Leaves Society, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A chance comment describing tea as “dead leaves” caused eyebrows to lift.
It was my friend Geoffrey Norman, sharing a Facebook memory of a paid commission to write about tea, which he described as “that time I […]
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But by its death, it gave birth to a special drink, one with a lot of unique and living flavours.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Time Traveling by Way of Tea Tasting, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A couple of months back, I did an Instagram Live tasting with this chap.
So Han Fan, purveyor of West China Tea.
I’ve “known” So Han for nearly six years. I put that in quotes because . . . we’ve never a […]
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Sounds quite interesting.
And “only on a more “castle dungeon”-y level.” was really a great description.
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Sharing Tea In The Time of COVID, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months ago
With a tea event on my horizon, it seems like a good time to pause and consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has, and should, modify our tea habits.
Good procedures are good procedures, so we should look to taking […]
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I like the clever looking part.
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Xavier wrote a new post, A collection of blossoms, on the site Teaconomics 3 months ago
A collection of blossoms in Greek is an anthologia which would later give in English florilegium (from the Latin translation) and anthology. Even if what I will write below doesn’t come from existing works, I f […]
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I agree, what a wonderful phrase. It describes our bunch of writers here on tea Trade, we are all blossoms.
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Some more than others (me).
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Robert Godden wrote a new post, Not All Cover-Ups Are Bad, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months ago
To me, America is like a great white shark. It’s sleek, it’s big, it’s an inevitable part of life, it’s at or near the top of the food chain, and, particularly in certain parts of LA, there’s an awful lot of very […]
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Power to the tea shops but that doesn’t mean one can’t think before acting.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Ivan Chai from Tver Oblast, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 1 week ago
One of the nerdy pursuits we in the tea community like to pay attention to is origin. Single origin teas are the bread-‘n-butter of tea geekery. However, outside of good ol’ Camellia sinensis, herbal infusions are […]
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Question from someone with no experience: does strong fermentation mean darker brew?
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, "And Who Is My Neighbor?", on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Trigger Warning: The following article discusses religion and race. So, consider yourself doubly warned.
In my Bible readings, there is one aspect I keep coming back to. In the Gospels, Jesus conveyed his […]
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Good luck on your quest.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The "Aera" of Nepalese White Tea, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 3 weeks ago
One of the (few) benefits of this whole quarantine/lockdown thing we’ve endured so far in 2020 has been the chance to get to know new people. Granted, not in real outdoor life, but in an online capacity. During […]
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And to you for sharing your experiences with us.
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And does it have the kick-off effect caffeine has on most people?