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Do Stormtroopers dream of good tea?

No I didn’t fell for Star Wars, since that title came to my mind before finding this picture on the Internet. Snowtrooper drinking tea, photoshoot by Mike Stimpson (http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/) But who could blame a Snowtrooper from drinking something warm between patrols on cold worlds? Certainly …

This post was prompted by an article I read on the Web about Mac Donald changing the way the Quarter Pounders is made with small steps made in order to improve their quality. This strategy is called differentiation, trying to make ones product more attractive …

My dear fellow Teatrader @thedevotea wrote a few weeks ago a post on a report about the increase in tea consumption in the world between now and 2019. His main complaint was that Australia didn’t make it to the top 20 of this list. This …

Florilegium on Japanese tea

Tea and Japan… A lot has been written about it and a lot could still be written on this subject but I decided to focus on a really small topic, the early Japanese tea exports. As it happens quite often, this is merely an introduction …

It’s in your gut

Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you. But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead. Ecclesiastes 11.1-11.2 Why start with a quote from the Bible and one that …

I will share a secret with you: I am doomed. I know in the end, we all are but in my case, I am doomed earlier than you. Why? Because a study said so. Now you are thinking that I am really out of my …

Rise and fall and …

After a first glimpse at Indonesian history, mostly on how tea came to it and how the Dutch implemented different agricultural policies (http://teaconomics.teatra.de/2014/06/24/an-unexpected-journey/), it is time to see if Indonesia was such a big tea producing tea country and what happened to it. As for …

An unexpected journey

Indonesia as one the biggest tea producer (in numbers) before World War II? When I read this in one of The Devotea’s posts, I was quite puzzled and I started to dig into this topic. According to Wikipedia and the FAO, Indonesia was in 2011, …

The answer was not in the cup

After seeing an article saying that a machine worth 40,000 $ was able to make the perfect pot of tea, I wondered what a perfect pot of tea. This question came back to haunt me while I was having a cup of tea with @Chakaiclub …

With a little help from my friends

No, this blog is not about musics or whether or not the Beatles, Joe Cocker and some others ever drank tea. This title is a thanks to @thedevotea for helping me finding a topic with one of his latest posts (http://thedevotea.teatra.de/2014/03/13/hypocrisy/) and also a hint …

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