I try never to lose sight of the tremendous importance of physical, material beauty in the act and practice of preparing and drinking tea. Naturally, when the light glints off of the droplets on the lovely curved inner surface of glass and the flat, dark rosewood surface of the tea table, there’s no danger of [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is a post by Cosmin Dordea, who writes the tea blogs Chadao, Way Of Tea Europe and Chadao Calea Ceaiului. ********************* “A musician can have Kung Fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep, this too is Kung Fu.” As mister Jackie Chan said above, kung [...]
The third and final part of my interview with Nigel Melican is now posted on Cha Dao. Excerpted: Cinnabar: The attempts at growing one place’s regionally-specific tea in a different location seem strange to me, because if you’re taking a type of tea varietal and growing it somewhere else, with a totally different climate and [...]
The second part of my interview with Nigel Melican is now available for you to read on Cha Dao. Excerpted: Cinnabar: I guess there are really two focuses of organic farming. I wasn’t even thinking about how it affects the end product, because it seems like that’s not the same conversation. The impact on the [...]
A couple of weeks prior to the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas last year Corax, of the consistently excellent tea blog Cha Dao, asked me to engage in a bit of information gathering during my time there, which would ultimately become a guest post. He also solicited Nigel Melican of Teacraft Ltd, who agreed [...]
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The question posed for this month’s Blog Carnival, sponsored by the Association of Tea Bloggers was: “What is the most uncomfortable place where you prepared tea (work, traveling, in a place without suitable equipment, etc.) and how were you able to overcome the difficulty?” I have had an array of tea-related experiences ranging from exquisite [...]
