Posted on August 10, 2009
In my introduction I mentioned that when I was in Taiwan in the 1970s I spoke with women whose mothers or grandmothers had worked in the tea hills each season. Tea plucking not only provided a rare wage-earning opportunity for women but also set the stage for young people to socialize away from watchful eyes. [...]
Posted on July 11, 2009
Part I included a Green Hairpoint, a Green Maofeng, and a (new, to me) Mao Shan Qing Feng, and I had surmised that this last would prove a costly tea, pretty as it was.
In that respect, the next tea would not be lagging far behind. Google “Huang Shan Maofeng” and plenty of results crop up, [...]