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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 1 month ago
In 2003, husband and wife team—Victor Vesely and Margit Nelleman—purchased an old cattle and horse farm near the small town of Westholme. It was located in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island in British Col […]
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, A Kanchan View Darjeeling Pairing, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 1 month ago
You’re not red … you’re orange.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 1 month ago
The Kanchan View tea estate in Darjeeling has a rough history.
The garden was first established in the 1880s, where it first went by the name “Rungneet”. At the peak of its hundred-plus-year production, the […]
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Reading the Coffee Leaves, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 2 months ago
Indeed!
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 2 months ago
In the spring of 2013, I tried a tisane made from the dried leaves of a Hawaiian coffee plant.
And I wasn’t a fan.
The flavor was not overly offensive, just . . . herbal. And nutty. Nutty-herbal. Okay, o […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 2 months ago
The definition of the word “totem” is thus: “A natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem.” It is derived from the Native America […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 2 months ago
It may be a surprise to a lot of people, but Brazil used to produce a lot of tea. As early as 1812, even. The ugly truth of it was, though, most of those old plantations were dependent on slave labor. When slavery […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 2 months ago
Over the years, I’ve had some fun at the expense of Guan Yin—the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
Whether portraying her as having an illicit affair with Scottish botanists, or depicting her as a scorned god […]
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Ignore Me For The Right Reasons, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 8 years, 2 months ago
To this I say, “At least you’re getting contacted at all.” I have only received one inquiry since the directory went live. (From one of the very vendors you alluded to here.) Other than that? Nothin’.
I can […]
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Suck It Up, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 8 years, 2 months ago
As a man who has brewed whole leaves in a pint glass (and nothing else), I approve of this entry.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 2 months ago
It’s officially the first day of September. The outside temperature has dropped twenty degrees. Skies are gray, and big-ass raindrops are falling. Yep, summer time is just about over.
And I couldn’t be […]
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Tschanara, Germany's First Tea Garden, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 2 months ago
You’re far closer than I am.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Tschanara, Germany's First Tea Garden, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 2 months ago
Yep, those wacky East Frisians. They’re obsessed with tea. The rest of Germany? Not so much.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Tschanara, Germany's First Tea Garden, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 3 months ago
Hahahahaha! Fair enough, sir. Still keeping the narrative as is, though, ‘cuz . . . lulz.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 3 months ago
Growing tea in Germany . . . of all places . . .
Blame Wikipedia for putting that fantasy in my head. I remember reading up on tea customs in European countries, and there was a sub-section on East Frisia. […]
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Agarwood Puerh, and the Tale of Two J(G)e(o)ffreys, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 3 months ago
Yep.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Agarwood Puerh, and the Tale of Two J(G)e(o)ffreys, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 3 months ago
Jeffrey claimed he got it through a guy in Taiwan that he’d known for years who specialized in curating agarwood.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, Kuding Cha, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 3 months ago
The sleepless night I had after begs to differ.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, On the Back Roads of Vegas with Bootleg Botanicals, on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 3 months ago
Thanks.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 8 years, 3 months ago
In mid-June, I made a trip to Las Vegas for World Tea Expo, 2016. (As you, fair reader, already know.) It fueled at least six blogs that took me all summer to write about. (They can all be found on my tea blog.) […]
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