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First, and Last Thoughts
This is an epitaph. You are reading the last blog of a tea-head. For I am in the last stages, and I intend to die by tea. Most drinkers of aged tea write about the complexity involved in choosing puerh...
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Giant Steps 2012, or Do you have a Plan for Your Stash?
Giant Steps 2012 by White2TeaJust like Last Thoughts 2014, White2Tea's Giant Steps 2012 cake is part of my overall "Death by Tea" plan. I also chose it for the wrapper. For a very good reason. Not long...
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The Out Law of Bad Tea
Lately I've been feeling a little cheated. I drink so darn much good Puerh tea. Did you read about the previous two cakes in my blog? Outstanding. How on earth did I find those cakes? Easily. Using a...
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The New Soft Shou
Around the time Johnny Cash died, I was serving a stint as artistic director of a theatre company that performed original works. I'd written a play about Gram Parsons for the company as a potential...
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The Out Liar of Good Tea, or Your Big Zhong is Not Gay Enough
I don't play well with others. A delightful email in response to "The Outlaw of Bad Tea" brings out my Bad Behavior. (Identity masked to protect the Wicked).On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, JM...
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The Death Book of '80s Tea
Really Old TeaTea Classico's 1980s Ying Ming Hao takes me back to my younger days exploring herbal teas and remedies. While my mother was Jewish, my father was a Catholic priest who spent his entire...
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The Doctor is Naka-erd
Chasing a good tea sometimes feels a little like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. For those of you not familiar with American comic strips, Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" main character...
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Tastes Like Bacon?
Midwesterners call a spade a spade. Very often I think of the speech patterns of rural Wisconsin as just a hair shy of a language disability, because of the value placed on spare speech, of saying only...
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Old Lady Tea
I don't drink young tea all that much. Maybe once a week or every two weeks. Most of the young teas (<10 years) I try are either for my son or things I will eventually give away elsewhere. Right now...
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A Reality Check
Wisconsin rhythms are in my blood. In the spring, I know when sap starts to bleed from maple trees. And when the smelt fish run in huge schools into the inland rivers from Lake Superior where we caught...
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Somebody that I used to know
Previously, I've written a bit about the order of nuns I belonged to in my youth. Our order 聖方濟各永久朝拜聖體修女會 had a school and medical dispensary in Wuchang, China from 1928-1949, though a bit longer if...
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2014 Ban Payasi
Hello Tea Hoarders! Yes, you. I know what you're hiding in that unplugged fridge, collection of jars, your dedicated cupboards, those boxes under the bed, and lined drawers that you can shut so no one...
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Puerh Storage is a Crock
Recently I read an old comment in a tea forum discussion along the lines of "because I live in North America, I'm not in a position to talk about storage." We've got to stop that mentality. For one, we...
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1-900-DialTea
Scams against Old Ladies like me are notorious in this part of the US. One of the most common scams is a letter or phone call telling the Old Lady she has won $10,000, and all she needs to do is remit...
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Obsessed by Tea and How to Know
Under your bed is a box of tea that nobody knows about.You've calculated in grams how long your stash will last.You smell sheng at the office.Your co-workers smell sheng at the office.The kitchen...
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The Fungus Amongus
Right away all you Smart Tea Drinkers know what I'm talking about here. Yep, it's fungus cake time. Now I've eschewed Heicha thus far in the interests of my time and money. I just don't feel I have the...
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The Myth of the Taiwan Businessman
creditSometimes online dating sites really pay off. I have a date with a Taiwanese businessman! _______________________Female for Male Age: 55-75Tea Drunk looking for Businessman in Taiwan for random...
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Tea Storage in Europe is a Glorious Crock
Stig Lindberg poster at EtsySince the first installment of "Puerh Storage is a Crock," I have had a number of people write to me about storage in Europe and the UK. Folks are looking around to augment...
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Teavana, Just what the Doctor Didn't Order
If you are familiar with the capitol city of Wisconsin, then you probably know the Beltline Highway in Madison, a stretch of 6-lane highway that never seems to get better. I can confirm it's worse, and...
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2002 Yong Pin Hao Red Yi Wu Zheng Shan
One of the reasons Good Tea so insanely easy to find is because I know people who have better palates than myself. At the top of my list are the guys over at Teadb.org. Every week the site features...
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