The Ancient Tea Road, in Chinese: chama gudao (Chinese: 茶马古道), partly identical with the “Ancient Silk Road” and also referred to as The Ancient Tea-Horse Road, is one of the most important landmarks in the Asian trade history. Hardly a road at all, but more of a trail, the tea-horse road connected the southern Chinese …
Continue reading The Ancient Tea Road – from Yunnan to Lhasa
To anticipate this, no, I am not serious about that question. If we are talking about the pros and cons of small or large scale producers, we first need to define which end-consumer market segment we have in mind. How would a small scale producer setting fit the requirements of a food discounter market chain …
by Thomas Kasper Editor’s note: Thomas Kasper is from Germany but now resides in Thailand where he studies and writes about tea. He is also a freelance writer and translator (German, English, and Thai). We are pleased that he is now contributing some of his tea knowledge to this blog. One of the seemingly unresolved …
Editor’s note: Thomas Kasper is from Germany but now resides in Thailand where he studies and writes about tea. He is also a freelance writer and translator (German, English, and Thai). We are pleased that he is now contributing some of his tea knowledge to this blog. Tea brings opposites from a huge spectrum of …
Continue reading Tea — Great Socializer or Ritualized Individual Distinction?
In tea-related discussion forums and groups, we keep encountering the discussion of whether the definition of the word “tea” should be limited to the varieties of the Camellia Sinensis plant or whether it is ok to call anything tea that will infuse in (hot?) water, as is quite common use in the English language. Never, …
Continue reading Tea: Camellia Sinensis, or Just Anything That Will Infuse?
Editor’s note: Thomas Kasper is from Germany but now resides in Thailand where he studies and writes about tea. He is also a freelance writer and translator (German and English). We are pleased that he will now be contributing some of his tea knowledge to this blog. Flight tea? What is that, you might ask …
Continue reading “Flight Tea” — Fresh First Flushes Air-shipped from Darjeeling
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