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Arighato Gujaimaso
From the moment you get up in the morning, go to the restroom to get ready, have breakfast, catch the train to Minamimakhuari station and take the bus to the venue of Foodex 2014 in Makuhari Messe, the...
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Mineral springs
Free Trade makes an entrepreneur ready for war. I learned this costly lesson visiting Harrison, Mineral Springs, and Lebong tea estates. These estates had been lying abandoned for so long the...
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Phoenix Mountain Single Tree Oolong
During April in North Guangdong province at an altitude of 4,500 feet, 100-year-old Oolong trees are harvested for their young shoots, which are then oxidized to 45%, fired under medium heat, and...
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Chabbesey . . .
Destiny takes you to places. On 28th June 2014, we landed on a parcel of land where we closed the missing link between India and China. Xiao Juan of Dongli Tea was visiting India. Together we went to...
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Tea in the garden
I love decorating magazines, architecture magazines, and gardening magazines. If I had the extra time, I’d probably spend a lot of it sitting in my own backyard garden – matured like me over the years...
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The last horse trail: Jungpana
On 27th June 2014, I revisited Jungpana, where I lived for about six months between October of 1992 to March of 1993. Along the journey with me was Xiao Juan, of China. Xiao Juan was very much...
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K2K:Kolkata to Kunming
On 25th November 2014, I attended the 10th edition of K2K Forum – Kolkata to Kunming – took place in Kunming, in the Yunnan province of China. The twin sister cities host the forum alternately, and...
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The online tea companies bubble!
I have been closely associated with the tea industry for 17 years now. The change in the speciality tea industry has been one of the most noticeable new achievements for our small tea world. I have...
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Tea travels
Tribute teas were prepared for the emperors. To do that, the leaf plucked had to be of the finest type which were then shaped by the most skillful fingers of the artisans. It was this message that...
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Blast From the Past: Tea and Food Pairing: Breakfast
Many of us love to start our day with tea. Just tea! The variety of choices here is as wide as the world of tea! Many people like to start their day with a green or an oolong tea, but there are others...
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Blast from the Past: Reading With Tea
Although the calendar says it’s autumn, the temperatures here in Austin don’t really reflect that yet. I suppose high 80’s instead of mid-90’s is an improvement, but we’re still waiting for the...
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Review: Pahadi Tea
Let’s face it: in the United States, if you don’t know what you’re looking for, and you want a flavored tea, chances are you’re going to pick up something that’s artificially flavored. I won’t name...
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Tea and Buddha
The following is an excerpt from a talk I gave recently: Where there is tea there has to be Buddha. The legend says it was the eyelids which were getting in the way of mediation which became tea....
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Top 10 Tea Towns: World’s Best Cities to Experience Tea Culture
Compiled by The Flavor Project & Eric Sensen Through sickness and through health, tea has and will always be the world’s beverage of choice. According to legend, in 2737 BC, the Chinese emperor...
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Rungneet – The Lost Tea Gardens of Darjeeling
We were invited to visit this place recently, and in two days of intense research on this place, we learned that this place was a hellhole too. Two long vertical swaths of narrow lands reached from the...
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The Beginning of a Great Tea Journey
For as long as I can remember, I have watched my parents starting their day with an energizing cup of chai. However, my own journey with the brew started with nothing less than the famed tea estates of...
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Brought Together by Tea: A Tea Poem
Travellers – strangers – travelling a foreign land. Find themselves connected – brought together by tea. Two trips of a lifetime – both for utterly unusual reasons. Trek together through the...
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The Legend of Darjeeling
Legend says winter comes from the hands of Chys Khan, the master of the cold. It is passed from his hands to those of Father Christmas, who is responsible for distributing it throughout the rest of...
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Amazing tea shopping therapy
Standing in a shop selling several varieties of tea from all over the world, I was amazed at the vast choice available to us in the form of various green teas, oolongs, iced teas, floral mixes and...
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A New Legacy of Darjeeling Tea
The Darjeeling tea industry has been going through a difficult three months. Tea business owners and tea lovers read any news article they can find on the situation because their beloved Darjeeling...
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