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Gendered consumption of tea
One of the topics that came up a week ago in class was the gendered consumption of tea, and the perception in different places of tea's proper role. It's an interesting subject that I notice sometimes in my own drinking… -
What are you tasting?
On Thursday for class I brought in some of my testing sets, and went about showing my students how you might test for different teas when you're a buyer. We were talking about the commodification of tea, coffee, etc, an… -
The information age
I used to write a lot of "tea reviews", if you can call it that. For maybe two years, this blog was mostly one review or another. Sometimes it's an oolong, others a puerh, but generally, this blog was a daily report of… -
Tasting blind
Felix Salmon is a great finance blogger, and I've been reading him for a while now. He also writes about other things from time to time, and his latest entry, on tasting wine blind, is quite insightful. He describes, w… -
Some things never change
From a broadsheet printed in 1664 on tea (spelling revised to modern standard as best I can) The Peculiar Virtues are these: It maketh the Body active and lusty, strengthening the Muscles and Sinews It helpeth the Head… -
Back at home...
Finally, after about two weeks, I'm back at home, drinking tea properly for the first time. A few things I noticed on the trip 1) Tap water in places like Utah and Arizona are very high in mineral content. When I boil… -
Fussing about teaware
Pardon the ranting. Skip reading if you wish. I keep seeing these topics posted on various forums about "is XYZ teaware safe to use?", "does Yixing contain lead?", and it's really starting to bother me. I understand… -
Quick review: The True History of Tea
I don't normally do book reviews, and I know that Corax of Chadao will be doing a much more thorough and thoughtful review of this book at some point or another, so here are just my quick thoughts on this nice, new, shin… -
Logic problem
Everybody have seen this before All dogs have four legs My cat has four legs Therefore, my cat is a dog I think we can all spot the problem here -- my cat could be a dog, but since not only dogs have four legs, it does… -
The drain cleaners
I've been drinking a lot of drain cleaners these days, or in other words, puerh that are between 3-7 years old. These are often the nastiest tasting things. Whereas very young puerh (1 year or younger) are often quite …
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Tenmoku chawan
Haven't posted any teaware porn for a while, so he... -
Gendered consumption of tea
One of the topics that came up a week ago in class... -
What are you tasting?
On Thursday for class I brought in some of my test...
