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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, How My Brain Made Me Love Chinese Green Teas (Again), on the site Steep Stories 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Well, it’s spring again, and with it comes warmer weather. That’s how it is in the Pacific Northwest. I’m . . . not a fan. The reason? With warmer weather comes seasonal chronic migraines; a fun little diagn […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the First Flushes, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I don’t consider it spring until I’ve had a first flush Darjeeling in my mouth. This year, though, it took me a little longer to get to my “stash” of first flush Darjeelings. Most years, the family Lochan sends m […]
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Oh! The times they are changing?
I should get my hands on a first flush to check these changes for myself.
Thanks for the tip.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, In Search of the Tea Tree God, on the site Steep Stories 2 months ago
Several months ago, I had a conversation with a fellow tea nerd about the origin of the tea tree. Y’know, small talk. During the dialogue, he uttered the following assertion that made my imagination boil over l […]
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Some foods for the thought and a great job.
After reading your post, I almost wanted to read once more some works by Umberto Ecco.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Milk Tea, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 3 months ago
I’m actually not much of a fan of milk tea or bubble tea, but Hong Kong-style is the only way I like either. So . .. that’s something.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, I had a dream, on the site Teaconomics 3 months ago
This spurred me to do a quick search for tea museums, of which there are SEVERAL . . . but I like the idea of a museum that is more honed-in on its message. I’d see a Xavier inspired tea museum any day.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The White Teas of Araksa, on the site Steep Stories 3 months ago
The Araksa Tea Plantation is, by its own website’s declaration, one of the oldest in Chiang Mai province, Thailand. That’s not to say that it’s the oldest garden, or the oldest processor of teas. But by moder […]
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That’s a really good question: does the time of plucking have such influence on the way a tea taste?
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Black and White of Benifuki, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 1 week ago
Benifuki is an interesting Japanese tea tree cultivar. For one, it’s a cross between a cultivar heralding from the assamica variety, and another cultivar of the sinensis variety. A cross-breeding of this sort w […]
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You know a guy in the tea world? Only one? 😛
Great job.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Rohini White Tea Rumble, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 1 week ago
Sometimes, all it takes is a photograph to get me excited.
This was posted back in November of 2017 by one Shiv Saria. The tea in question was a Darjeeling white tea hailing from the Rohini tea estate. In […]
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Is there a map (better an online one) or a list of estates in Darjeeling (or a list) but one that shows around time which one are operating or not?
This is something I asked myself after going through your post.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Tea at Sea, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I have a good reason for not updating this here blog in awhile, honest. For the last week or so, I was on vacation. As indicated by this dorky tourist capture.
No regrets.
Short summary: I was on a […]
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Ensenada/Catalina run is pretty fun, I’ve done that one but with Princess (my guess yours wasn’t Princess as their food is fancy pants creampuff swans, tiramisu, and scones with clotted cream).
But yeah, I bring my own tea. All the times I’ve gone the staff are happy to bring me hot water or I hit the buffet and fill a big thermos.
I’d love to do a cruise with a bunch of tea people one day, a bit hard when friends live on other ends of the country and everything has to be in pairs. Also, I only want to cruise Princess because of my loyalty level (free internet!) and all I care about is the fancy pants food.
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I am happy that you had a holidays break.
As for tea, we won’t tell His Highness of down there in the Southern Hemisphere. I swear it. 😉
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Tea at the Temple Gates, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 1 week ago
On the odd occasion, I leave the house to hunt for tea. It’s a rare occurrence—much like a hermitic groundhog hailing the arrival of spring—but it’s been known to happen. Sometimes that urge falls upon me at nigh […]
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Quite mysterious and interesting.
It seems you are living in an avant-garde tea scene.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, “Glass” Half Full, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 2 weeks ago
I’ve been studying the Bible a lot, lately.
Wait! Don’t turn away. I swear this isn’t proselytizing, and—yes—this still deals with tea. Plus a whole lot more. It may be a tad unwieldy to navigate this, her […]
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Your glass is likely to be fully full 😀
Keep on the good work on everything that matters to you!
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Invoices of Autumn, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 4 weeks ago
While most of the world above the equator is currently complaining about winter, my mind is still stuck in autumn.
At least, that is, from a tea perspective.
Of all the seasonal flushes in India, Sri […]
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Red Thunder Gold “oolong”…
The name alone is an invitation to drink it.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Long-Awaited Look at Latumoni, on the site Steep Stories 5 months ago
Throughout 2018, there was one name I could not escape.
Latumoni.
It was the name given to a village in Northeastern Assam, situated in the uppermost part of the Dibrugarh district. It was apparently so […]
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I am always amazed by your findings.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Tea Musings about 2018, on the site Steep Stories 5 months, 3 weeks ago
2018 was a weird year. Yeah, I know I’ve said that about prior years, but I really mean it this time. At present, it’s midnight on New Year’s Eve, a “chill-hop” station is on repeat-play, and I’m waiting for […]
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And I will read you in 2019 as I did in 2018.
But you are right, researching is fun.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Spring Cleaning of Summer Stories in the Fall, on the site Steep Stories 6 months, 4 weeks ago
At the time of this writing, it’s been over a month since my last article . . . missive . . . er . . . whatever. Also, at the time of this writing, it’s Thanksgiving day. Due to a bout of illness that decided to […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Tea Vlogger in “American Vandal”, on the site Steep Stories 7 months, 4 weeks ago
On September 20th of this year, I received an intriguing text from a fellow tea-brother:
I’d never heard American Vandal, nor was I aware that it had two seasons. My Netflix-fu was neophyte status at best. […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Real Tea, on the site Steep Stories 8 months, 2 weeks 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 […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Smoked Darjeelings of Niroula’s Tea Farm, on the site Steep Stories 9 months, 3 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 […]
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, The Ruckus over Ruan Zhi, on the site Steep Stories 10 months ago
Thanks Valerii. I incorporated the new data into the write-up.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Ruckus over Ruan Zhi, on the site Steep Stories 10 months 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 […]
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Quite intriguing names.