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Whisky in a cup of tea

Did you know that Al Capone drank whisky in a cup of tea? It might be a hoax but I heard it on a rather serious radio and I found it cool enough to mention it here. A more “serious” reason than the “cool” factor …

Back to the future

As you might have noticed (for example here or here) I have an interest in prices of our nice little drink: tea. I usually focus on old prices (sometimes among centuries) and I might still do that soon but another interesting thing is to focus …

Is the gap narrowing?

According to a radio emission I heard a couple of weeks ago, coffee is the second most valuable item sold in the world behind oil. When I heard that, I had to check if it is was true and compare it to similar data for …

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 …

All that glisters…

Following the guest post on my blog, I wanted to have a little more quantitative approach to the evolution of the American tea market. So I looked for data from some sources and found something quite interesting at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO): all …

France, its colonies and tea

I know it is probably quite strange to publish something about a country that is going to get under the ever cautious eyes of Mr @thedevotea himself and that @lahikmajoe wrote about. What is even worst is knowing that in 2009, with a mere 0,21 …

“Café du Commerce” and tea

Let’s start with what is called in French a “Café du Commerce” analysis (mostly a popular wisdom analysis that you can hear in most cafés): tea prices are too high. You do agree, right? How many times did you hear that? Or perhaps even say …

We live really interesting times. Thanks to the Internet I can chat with people from all over the world about tea or any other topic I might be interested in. I can also find a lot of surprises while looking for other things (which is …

I had a few discussions and mail exchanges with @Lahikmajoe about the German tea culture and its importance mostly in Northern Germany. According to him, one of the reasons behind it is that this area is the hinterland of the port of Hamburg. This was …

A lot of data but no definitive answers

All the data used in this article were found in the 2010 Tea Barometer of the Tropical Commodity Coalition for sustainable Tea, Coffee, Cocoa and are stated as being 2008 data. The most obvious information is that there is a split in the producing countries …

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