Author Archives: Xavier
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Of tea and spirits
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After a hiatus, I am back. After reading a (or should I say the since it is at the same time big and focusing on many different lesser known topics) biography about one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, I found out …
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Where Eagles Dare
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After learning that Japanese beef was graded with a two dimensional system (A, B, C and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), I had thought I could work on the reason behind the different grades in tea (the most known being in the former English colonies …
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A collection of blossoms
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A collection of blossoms in Greek is an anthologia which would later give in English florilegium (from the Latin translation) and anthology. Even if what I will write below doesn’t come from existing works, I found the name beautiful enough for small pieces of reflections …
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Are they all doing the same?
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Innovation is a big word, one that is used all around us. All companies need to innovate to thrive or we all need to use the latest and most innovative concept/app/product… It is a kind of buzz word and is all over the place. I …
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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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This post owns much to the work done by Dr Pim de Zwart from the Wageningen University and Research that published in 2016 a paper in The Journal of Economic History on globalization in the early modern era: new evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic trade between …
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Light! More Light!
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I think that Goethe’s last words are more than suited to this rather obscure topic that I teased last time, tea in French Indochina. But perhaps I should start with some explanations for those unfamiliar with the history/geography of the world at the beginning of …
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Teaser…
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You might remember (Or not, I won’t be offended) that I wrote things about tea in the French colonies. Just in case, here are the links: https://teaconomics.teatra.de/2015/07/28/for-you-little-gardener-and-lover-of-trees/ https://teaconomics.teatra.de/2012/08/28/france-its-colonies-and-tea/ I had completely forgotten this topic and while looking at online archives on maritime power and colonies, …
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It tastes like …
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How does tea taste? Why do two people drinking the same tea experiment two different things? And obviously which one of them is right? The answer is much more complex than we could think at first, which means that perhaps the two drinkers are wrong …
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The only one stuck is the last one
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According to the Times of India in its edition of October 17th of 2019, the Tea Board of India wanted to meet the producers of Darjeeling teas to “propose 100% mandatory sales […] via auction” and more importantly via e-auctions. The reasons are threefold: 1. …
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One never knows how loyalty is born
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Why is Earl Grey/Green Tea/… popular and proposed/drank in most places? How do trends begin? Good questions indeed. When I was asked about it, I began doing some research and I found some information on how trends were born in fashion. After looking and thinking …