Tag: Verdant Tea
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Caffeine and Crassicolumna
In late 2018, various media outlets were all a-buzz about a new (old) discovery. An as-of-yet uncategorized decaffeinated tea plant in Fujian province, China. Some of the articles exaggerated the claim; others got some of the science wrong completely. Put succinctly: a long-forgotten cultivar had mutated. How does that happen? Well, as most tea botany…
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Golden Fleece Feast Fest, A Taste of Eugene, and Tea from Neighbors
I might sound like a broken record here, but the last couple of weeks or so have been insane. Moments of import at casa de chaos are innumerable and frustrating…and totally not worth reflecting upon. Instead, I want to pay homage to the good things – the tea trifecta, if you will – that have…
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2012 Wrap-Up – It’s All in the Tea Delivery
2012 can suck it. Okay, perhaps I should elaborate. Since about – oh – 2008, I can’t say I’ve had a particularly “good” year, by any stretch. They’ve usually been a mish-mash of good and bad. The finest example of this was 2010, which was just…bipolar. 2012, however, was just all-around shite right out of…