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Tea Competition from the Chinese Tea Culture Online Museum.

There are so many great tea blogs out there, often written by knowledgeable tea enthusiasts (and in some cases, professionals).  Here are links to recent, interesting posts by other bloggers:

It’s an interesting thing going to a store that focuses on its pots, rather than its tea. Yesterday there was a crowd of potheads gathered around the table with the owner sitting there, casually brewing some aged oolongs in a big well made pot that I’m sure is a few thousand dollars, at least. The discussion (to the extent that I could understand when they spoke in mandarin — most of the conversation was in Taiwanese, which is hopelessly difficult) was all about pots. Who made what, which one’s nice, if it’s a real one, how much, look at that nice clay, the good calligraphy, etc etc

Read the full (and very interesting) post here. If only he included photos!

  • Tea Guy Speaks reminds us about Adagio’s nifty software, Tea Timer. Yup, it’s a tea timer for your computer! A few years back, when I was still working in an office, I used this program several times a day. (Now that I work from home, I just use my oven timer.) And now that I’ve switched to a Mac, I’m relieved to know that there’s a Mac program called Cuppa. The Dock icon is a little teacup!
  • Mellow Monk directs readers to the very cool TeaMap.com. It’s unfortunate that it’s U.S.-only, since I haven’t lived in the U.S. in over a year, but I now know what tea shops I’ll be visiting during my trip to New York, D.C., and Orlando in November!

 

Posted by Rachel at Thursday ~ October 04, 2007 |

Category: Tea

 

“Comments”

Fissa 27/05/08 - 11:07 am

hello Rachel,
i saw that you were quoting some tea blogs, but you didn’t tell about the Tavalon tea one.
it is written by a tea sommelier, Chris Cason and, is pretty fun to read !
you should check out!
http://www.tavalon.com/blog/
>Fissa.

Tea Escapade 24/06/08 - 2:56 pm

While I wouldn’t consider myself an expert I am passionate about tea. If you add to this list, Tea Escapade would like to be considered.

http://teaescapade.wordpress.com

Otto 28/08/08 - 9:07 am

Hi Rachel–

I know this is not the same as Adagio’s software, but I printed this http://www.redumbrella.ca/a67/About-Tea-Infusion/article_info.html
and put it on my fridge. Normally, most packages just put the boiling temp and time on the front, right?

Otto

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