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    Tea Pot Travels - The Wild Taiwan Clay '90'ml goes to Europe
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jun 21
    • 4 min

    Tea Pot Travels - The Wild Taiwan Clay '90'ml goes to Europe

    It sits amidst 5 other clay pots that are used daily. The lid is never shut tight but rather it sits ajar on top of the little 90 ml...
    Dolma, The Titan
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Aug 17, 2021
    • 1 min

    Dolma, The Titan

    Over the course of a decade of repeated visits to a nomadic community and little Dolma’s clan near Litang, I would continuously be in awe...
    A Tea Comes Around
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jul 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Tea Comes Around

    The joy of a bit of time-hit leaf beauty. Age hasn’t always been something I’ve ever been convinced matters in any tea. Age of bushes, of...
    The Tea Sessions' Latest Column - Masters wear Flip-Flops
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jun 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Tea Sessions' Latest Column - Masters wear Flip-Flops

    Few have had quite the leaf influence upon me, as has Mr. Gao (aka Dr. Gao, Master Gao, or just Master). From his understated approach to...
    Interview with Tea Biz - Informality shouldn't be lost
    Jeff Fuchs
    • May 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Interview with Tea Biz - Informality shouldn't be lost

    A few thoughts shared in a recent interview with Tea Biz here. In the great rush of tea paraphernalia and in the increasingly creative...
    Latest in my 'Tea Sessions' Column - Mei's Alchemy
    Jeff Fuchs
    • May 10, 2021
    • 1 min

    Latest in my 'Tea Sessions' Column - Mei's Alchemy

    Joyfully returning to my Tea Sessions column in collaboration with Outpost Magazine with a piece on one of my favourite tea servers and...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A lusty bit of Leaf Tribute
    Jeff Fuchs
    • May 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A lusty bit of Leaf Tribute

    One of the most exquisite pieces of tea porn I’ve come ever across was this compressed mass of large leaf material, formed into seven...
    A Pass, The 'Feel', and Karma's Chai
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    A Pass, The 'Feel', and Karma's Chai

    The mind wanders back to a pass, a blizzard, and that wonderful thing that exists still: instinct. On a day of few words along a portion...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - He Was Late
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 20, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - He Was Late

    The horseman assured Sonam and our team that he would appear at 7am sharp the next morning. He promised over several cups of tea, and...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Walks and Words
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 10, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Walks and Words

    “When you walk through mountains, you appreciate any arrival. When you walk to a place, you can speak about a place”. An interview about...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Departure and the Cherub
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Departure and the Cherub

    The final destination along the Tea Horse Road, both for our own expedition and for the great journeys of the past, was Kalimpong, in...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came

    A simple tea room in Weishan, Yunnan, and one of the only tea rooms in my life that I failed to actually have tea in. Weishan was another...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human

    Over the course of years since meeting Dorjè I’ve written and pondered much about him. “Part goat and a little part human” was how he was...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some Courage
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some Courage

    Ascending up to the Sho La Pass in northwestern Yunnan in May there would always be a chance of weather issues, but it would still be a...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines

    On foot our team of four puttered and wandered west (often faintly lost) through the Nyanqen Tanghla mountains in Tibet towards Lhasa....
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend

    It was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’, at Shigu, in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the...
    The Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Remnants
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 19, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Remnants

    Within the tidy remnants of a former ‘Tea and Horse Trade Office’ in Mingshan County, near Ya’an in Sichuan, Jamyan and I wandered for 25...
    The Tea Sessions - A new column with Outpost Magazine
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Tea Sessions - A new column with Outpost Magazine

    Given the span of time and efforts to immerse in leaves and the lives connected to tea, there aren’t many more satisfying additions than...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Other Tales and Sight
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Other Tales and Sight

    Not all stories of the Tea Horse Road were ones of grand expanses, snow caps, or buzzing tea sessions. A friend from the Yi minority...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Fields vs Forests
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Fields vs Forests

    Blankets and ridges of green stimulant leaf lie in rows near Puerh. Here the leaf is entirely industry. Gorgeous industry, but still...
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