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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Book: The Japanese Tea Ceremony Often, small books like this aren’t really worth reviewing. At least not in terms of their informational merit and use as reference material. I picked up Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 1 month, 3 weeks ago
2024 Tea Festivals It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I attended a friend’s chamei chakai, followed back to back by three Tea Festivals—Tea Gorgeous Equinox, the Northw Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 5 months ago
Book: Green Gold: The Political Economy of China's Post-1949 Tea IndustryI don’t normally have to include the full subtitle of a book, but as I’ve got two books, by different authors, both titled ‘Green Gold’ (and I fully intend to Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 7 months ago
Book: The Teahouse This book deals with a very specific topic, that of teahouse culture in Chengdu, Sichuan from the 1900s to 1950, so it’s unlikely to appeal to a broader tea e Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Book: Darjeeling: A History of the World's Greatest Tea Koehler’s descriptions paint a very visual narrative; having read several more technical, dry manufacturing guides on Sri Lankan and Indian tea processing, Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 10 months, 2 weeks ago
2023 In Review So, unfortunately the Vancouver Tea Festival was cancelled in 2022, and didn’t resurface for 2023 either. It hasn’t had a proper event since 2020, but I’ve Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 1 year, 5 months ago
Book: Tea and Tea Dealing Unsurprisingly, I picked this book out at the library for its blending section. I like reading first-hand, antiqued accounts of what goes into blends, and Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 1 year, 9 months ago
Book: Tea Life, Tea Mind Having had this book sitting on my shelf for quite a while now, I kept passing it over for newer, more exciting acquisitions. I finally pulled it out to Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 1 year, 10 months ago
Book: Tasting Qualities This book has been on my list for a while, especially as Besky has another work out (“The Darjeeling Distinction”); but it wasn’t something I was going out of Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 2 years, 4 months ago
I’ll usually swing back around to this blog with a pretty dire opinion of my activity, but if I can manage four posts a year (in both 2021 and 2020!), then I’m pretty happy with myself. (Even if I did read months […]
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 2 years, 10 months ago
This is part of a series of “Philosophy Of” books. I had trouble finding much on the ‘series’, but it looks like each (or most) was written by a different blogger or other influencer/social media presence. I […]
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 3 years ago
I thought this was a handsome little book, and was immediately drawn to it in Chapters when it released. Flipping through it, I thought the illustrations were unique, I thought the Table of Contents was very […]
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 3 years, 2 months ago
This is an oldy but a goody, first published in 2003, and an easy, affordable buy at most bookstores back in the day (I think I paid $5 for this off of the clearance pile at Chapter’s).
Moxham has written a few […]
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AJ changed their profile picture 3 years, 9 months ago
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 3 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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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 3 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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AJ posted a new activity comment 4 years ago
Yay!
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AJ commented on the post, Book: The Stonewares of Yixing, on the site 4 years, 3 months ago
Yes. Only on Yixing teapots. But some on their export and influences on Europe and Japan.
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 4 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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AJ commented on the post, Tea in Quarantine, on the site 4 years, 5 months ago
Much belated, but here’s part two:
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