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Paying for Tuition Tea 24 Feb 2013 | 06:16 pm
What constitutes a deceit? If you bought a tea that tasted good and paid a reasonable price for it, is it a deceit if the description surrounding the tea has been fudged a little bit? I stopped by a s...
I Just Want to Have Fun 22 Feb 2013 | 06:25 am
Maybe it's the two years I've been away, but I have a more casual relationship with tea right now. I think interest in hobbies require some amount of leisure time. I had some tea ware with me and some...
Aged Oolong from Taiwan 21 Feb 2013 | 10:10 am
So in the course of a month I think I've tried enough different teas to make up for the two years I spent in Azerbaijan. All of them have been aged oolong, and although I'm no expert like MarshalNÂ I'...
Shopping for Tea 10 Feb 2013 | 12:13 pm
I both love and hate buying tea in person. I love the experience of sampling different teas that a shop has to offer. I hate it when I go through all the stuff in a store to find nothing I like (or th...
The Return 6 Feb 2013 | 09:44 am
So I recently returned from Azerbaijan, and what was the first thing I did? Check my cakes...and nothing, no visible signs of aging of any sort. No mold though, which is the silver lining. Must move t...
Tea in Azerbaijan 1 Apr 2011 | 05:22 am
Being in a huge tea-drinking culture here in Azerbaijan , I figure it’s worth it to discuss my tea related adventures here. Black CTC tea is the norm here, over steeped throughout the day and dilute...
Finally! 19 Jun 2010 | 07:56 pm
As some of you may know, I've been in the Peace Corps application process for almost a year now, but I've finally been invited to serve in Azerbaijan, teaching English. I know this isn't tea-related b...
A Tea Party 11 May 2010 | 04:59 pm
I recently had the opportunity to brew tea for some UCLA students on behalf of UCLA Natural Complementary & Alternative Medicine student group, as part of a tea presentation in which Imen of Tea Habit...
Reader's Poll 1 May 2010 | 03:41 am
My parents have always regarded my tea habit with curiousness . After all, I'm sharing the same interests with my grandparents, who are more or less triple my age. The "tea" gene skipped my parent's g...
Self-Made Blend 19 Apr 2010 | 12:01 pm
A line in MarshalN's blog about blending puerh (see here) struck me in particular: "Instead, I think the answer might be for us to start blending our own tea -- an aged Bulang with a young Yiwu might...
