Apr

23

greetings to a new Tea Buddy

April 23, 2012 | 3 Comments

While going through my Spam folder, I found a recent comment about a post I wrote last autumn (you pay more for appearance) about golden-tipped leaves and their curious pricing. Which tells me two things: check my spam folder carefully and secondly don’t forget that there are still so many interesting tea people out there that [...]

Sep

10

you pay more for appearance

September 10, 2011 | 6 Comments

I’m imagining someone shopping for tea in an excellent tea shop.  The customer is relatively new to tea, and has only recently gotten up the nerve to actually ask to smell the tea leaves before he decides which tea he’ll take home. Although he has a selection of quite a few different sorts of tea, [...]