Teaconomics | The Economy of Tea

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 …

Drink me I’m famous

I must confess that for none of us it was a night party but when thinking about this nice event, those were the first words that came to my mind. But perhaps I must first get back in time so that this all story makes …

We grow old because we stop playing

Yunnan… Yunnan? Yes I know, you know everything about this region and its teas. But let me surprise you. I am not going to talk to you about this but rather about a game named Yunnan, a game about tea, trade and merchant houses (yes …

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 …

Tea time in America

I was asked by people at Seattle Coffee Gear if I was interested in a post by them and among the subjects they were thinking of was “Tea in America”. Since this topic is of interest to me, I gave a go ahead and I …

It appears I have been tagged twice by Robert from thedevotea and Rachel from IheartTeas, so I need to be twice as convincing and concentrated when answering these questions on my not so sacred garden, aka tea and me. But first of all, what I …

We recently had on one of the blogs hosted here at Teatra.de the beginning of a discussion regarding what is the tea community like in the USA or in the Old World (I really like using some “strange” place names from time to time). My …

I had plans to write about a specific topic but last week-end, I spoke with a really nice old lady. She asked me if I had any hobbies and among my answers was tea (the others wouldn’t really interest you, would they?). This was the …

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 …