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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 2 years, 10 months 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 on the site Steep Stories 2 years, 10 months 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 on the site Steep Stories 2 years, 10 months 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 on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 2 years, 10 months 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 on the site Tea Stacks 2 years, 11 months 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 years 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 on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years 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 on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years, 1 month 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 on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years, 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 on the site Steep Stories 3 years, 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 on the site Teaconomics 3 years, 1 month 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 on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years, 1 month 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 on the site Steep Stories 3 years, 1 month 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 on the site Steep Stories 3 years, 2 months 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 on the site Steep Stories 3 years, 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 on the site Tea Stacks 3 years, 3 months 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 on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years, 3 months 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 on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years, 3 months 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 on the site Steep Stories 3 years, 3 months 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 on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 years, 3 months 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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