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 …

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 …

From The First Tea War: a History The following extract is a transcription in modern English of the unpublished memories of Zhèng Hai Dong, a Chinese scholar that finished his apprenticeship at the beginning of the First Tea War. I opened the door silently not …

Looking at the map A leave keeps falling It all ends with tea.

I spoke a few posts ago about a game based on tea trade, Yunnan (http://teaconomics.teatra.de/2014/01/21/we-grow-old-because-we-stop-playing/). Wait, hold on for a second! This post is so old? Well, it happens.   After going through its rules once more and looking all over the Internet (perhaps not …

The things you have to do for tea… Here I was in an unknown mountain, climbing on a rattan ladder, which with every step I took was turning back into a forest. “Why did I get myself into this strange dream?” was the first thought …

Why is it such a short month? Only a couple of tea cups, And March we must confront. Let’s turn this into ups.

Winter is coming, More tea will be brought. A ship is docking.