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tea. uncomplicated.
http://thesimpleleaf.wordpress.com
tea. uncomplicated is a blog about tea. and other stuff. like technology. and dogs. but mostly about tea.
Recent Posts
All In This Tea
Filmmakers Gina Leibrecht and Les Blank made “All In This Tea” in 2007 to showcase the “hidden world of tea” in remote parts of China. Lucky New Yorkers will get to see a screening of it at the Film Forum tomorrow. From The Ne...
Are The Health Benefits of Tea Exaggerated?
One of my pet peeves is the barrage of advertisements I see on the web for “Amazing Fat Loss Oolong Tea” or “How I Lost 55 lbs With Oolong” or, the most egregious: “Drop 3 Clothes Sizes Fast And Easy! 2 day tea diet. 100...
Visualizing The Simple Leaf
I had loads of fun this morning playing with a tool called Wordle. Paste in any text you want, or point to an RSS feed, and Wordle generates gorgeous visualizations of the most frequently occuring words. Here’s the RSS Feed for our website: An...
And We’re Back
Finally. With some new teas too!...
Driving 15,000 km For Tea In A London Taxi
About a year ago, I blogged about the ambitious Tracing Tea project, which aimed to celebrate the 350th anniversary of tea’s introduction to Britain. Well, I figured I would check on their progress this morning, and was delighted to find that t...
Tea Garden Bungalows: January
I recently received some beautiful scanned images that show artist renditions of tea garden bungalows in Assam. They’re part of a calendar, so I thought I’d start by posting this one from January. Visiting Agent’s Bungalow in Pert...
