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    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...
    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 - 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 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...
    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...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings

    It was from this patch of grassland near Napa Lake, just north of my home in Dukezong (old town of 'Shangrila') that our expedition...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Pluck
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Pluck

    Napu went up the tea tree amid a forest of tea trees, shimmying along a support branch, until she could access the buds and leaves two...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Fry
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Fry

    Dakpa and I had been rolling around tea forests, tea houses, and tea characters for months at this point along portions and strands of...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - He Said, She Knew
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - He Said, She Knew

    This ‘moment’ was more accurately a series of moments and most of an afternoon, with an old muleteer and his wife. We interviewed the...
    Tea's Brilliant (and Needed) Informality
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Oct 28, 2020
    • 8 min

    Tea's Brilliant (and Needed) Informality

    Mr. Gao and his tidy moustache move past, beckoning me to join. He has finished a day of pan frying his remarkable teas, and now it is...

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