Tag Archives: Jeff Fuchs
Pu erh Tea and its Precious Pickers
There is much made of a tea’s geographic designation, its altitude, its harvest season, and its growers…and there should be! The earth, the temperate surroundings and the handlers and coaxers of the leaves are to be thanked and acknowledged. Every … Continue reading
Nomad’s Fine Food – Air-Dried Yak
Tibetan styled air drying. Slabs of yak meat hang in a nomad’s tent letting 4500-metre air and wind dry one of the vital protein sources for families in the Himalayas. Yak have long been one of the essentials for the very highest of high-residents, providing sustenance, cloth, mobile transport and tools. Continue reading
Pu erh’s Needed Basics
Mystification in Puerh’s world comes from some of its legitimate claims, but it also comes from regurgitated misinformation, marketing, and the intensely pretentious. Mystification, though, can also serve to hide or manipulate knowledge and create hype, and it is at this, that this little bit of writing is directed. Continue reading
Speaking About the Ancient Tea Horse Road
In a day and age of digital everything and seemingly every topic at our fingertips, it’s rare nowadays, compared to say 50 years ago, to meet a true ‘explorer’: a person who has ventured out into truly unique and remote lands, having cultural exchanges where outsiders have perhaps not, and bringing the tales home. Our guest today, Canadian Jeff Fuchs is just that – an explorer. Continue reading
Toronto Tea Festival – Speaking About (and Sipping) Puerh
Delighted to be speaking and slurping away at this year’s annual Toronto Tea Festival on behalf of our own JalamTeas. January 30th’s talk “Puerh’s Roots – Caravan Fuel to Boutique Idol” will look at the ascent of the unique … Continue reading
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 7
A tribute to mountains, tea, their characters and the preservation of the mountain culture and environments. Continue reading
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 6
Tributes to the Himalayas, its people, its spaces, and its impact Continue reading
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 5
Owing to Hector the Brave’s popularity and the debt to which our ‘Glacier’s Breath’ Expedition owes his efforts, a video in honour of our little friend in the mountains. Hector here.
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 4
Continued Tributes: A Father
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 2
A continuing of the epic characters, moments, and spaces of the past years in no particular order along with the requisite captions. To continue until the end of 2015…