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There was no doubt that it paid to make the gardens

As quite often these days, this month article was inspired by @lazyliteratus or rather by him being quoted by the Nikkei Asian Review in an article on Nepal and Darjeeling teas. Even if Geoffrey’s article was not focusing only on how the tea is produced …

Everybody has heard this sentence by Henry Ford that is usually misunderstood to mean something like “we don’t care about customers, we know what they want”. The truth is that because of the development of assembly line (which allowed for a drop in price), black …

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 …

By mere luck, I write this post while drinking a Darjeling tea, probably the most suited one as you will soon read. While going once again through some books and papers I have used for past posts, I became interested in knowing more about the …

Prince of Persia

For a whole generation of video players, Prince of Persia was a major hit with a “complex” story of prince, princess, assassins and a Persian kingdom (and a heart) to conquer. It sounds familiar? You change the name and the settings and you will have …

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, …

To the unsung heroes

Since our dear friend TheDevotea asked some of us to blog for Lady Devotea’s Birthday (something he called Lady Devotea’s Birthday Blog Bonanza whatever that might mean), I decided to postpone my usual blog posting and find a better topic that the one I had …

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 …

What could we all read?

I don’t know how you react when looking at a tea industry magazine but I know how I feel: frustrated. Why? To answer that, one must understand what is really a magazine and what is not one. “Magazines, periodicals, glossies, or serials are publications that …

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