The Great Mississippi Tea Company…
Honorary Colonel Jason McDonald – a direct decadent of Daniel Boone – traces the great American tea revolution – and established a tea farm on his estate in Lincoln County of New Orleans in Mississippi province. What makes it a unique opportunity is that for him it could have been an easy life by exploiting…
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Tea diplomacy..
At World Tea Expo on 16th June 2017 after a long one year preparation I joined Jason McDonald to present a talk on tea diplomacy on the lines of Prof. Wang Xufeng of Zhejiang Agricultural & Forestry University. Spread of Tea as a culture is no less than the spread of different religions of various…
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Nathalia Leter
It is a small world considering the desires to learn things and found there is some Tea in Portugal also where Nathalia grew up and learnt how to chant and made a clip for Doke on 20th May 2017 when she visited there and heard the Symphony of birds there…
Latin America
Dani Lieuthier is based in Brazil and has a multi pronged strategy of spreading the word of tea which is not very well known there. Tisanes – blends – Ayurveda – education – events – is all what she has in her arsenal to talk about tea which has a stiff competition with mate, coffee,…
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Fashion drinks..
Application of vegetation and meats is food industry and beverages are a major part of it. Recent food processing and technology has made the role of food ingredients very important and the result is new products of which I got my first exposure of fashion drinks in Shanghai Hotelex 2017 from 29-31st April as competition…
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Vicky & Dolly…
Tea is a commodity that is widely consumed in India and we argue that no great idea was ever arrived at without a few sips of this brew. Guests are always offered the customary cup of chai and although its preparation varies by region, it is now deeply embedded in our tradition. Fulfilling this fondness for tea are the…
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Brian the Bulang…
What do you do when you have never met a person who has become your “close” friend? First thing is that you need a reason to attribute this relationship and in this case it was tea, Yunnan and China in this order itself. Second step is to find out a deeper reason and that came…
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Talking of mountains..
If you meet a person whose energy is to be contained by walking the mountains then he has got to be Jeff Fuchs – the tall Canadian who criss crosses the roof of the world called Tibet or 西藏. Tea was carried by horses, camels and boats in this succession and later stolen and looted…
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Tea in Italy…
Stephano & Luca started a magazine called Fogli and dream of planting tea in Italy. As usual my fate brought me there and the collection of seeds made us meet and this led to the link in their second issue in the magazine. Now I know this will lead to a visit to see the plants as…
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Lochan Japan…
Chitoshe Sashida took up the mantle upon herself to form Lochan Japan and after first knowing Miura San of Mitsui Norin in 1985 it became a long journey to reach today where I stood on this platform to receive this Gold award from Shizuoka prefecture governor during 2016 O-Cha festival on Diwali day and it…
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