Month: May 2015
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Pocket Oolongs and After-Parties
Pocket Oolongs and After-Parties – World Tea Expo, Day 3 I tried to sleep in. Really, I did. But the anticipation of the last day of World Tea Expo activities loomed at the forefront of my brain. By 8AM, I gave up and rousted from my cousin’s couch (where I’d been sleeping for two days…
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Bitter Gourds and No-Pants Awards
Bitter Gourds and No-Pants Awards – World Tea Expo, Day 2 The day wasn’t off to the best of starts. I had to be up at 5:30 for a site tour . . . or so I thought. The day prior, I had agreed to a tour of the QTrade Teas and Herbs facility. Alas,…
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A Business Trip with Benefits
A Business Trip with Benefits – World Tea Expo 2015, Day 1 Arriving at the Long Beach Convention Center, and seeing that sign, was like coming home again. This was to be my third World Tea Expo in a row. The first year was a three-day whirlwind of awesomeness. The second was like a quickie,…
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State of the Minion Address: “World Tea Expo and Beyond!”
I’ll make this brief, I swear. Some of you fine tea folks are either (a) on your way to World Tea Expo, (b) already there, or (c) grumbling about not being able to go. To those in the former two categories, I just wanted to let you know . . . Hey! I’m there, too! (Soon,…