Category Archives: Tea History

A Great Day to Chai (Devotea Origins Part VII)

  Series Note: At long last, the final installment in my self-indulgent series that covers all our blends and what inspired Continue Reading →

A Wondrous Miscellany (Devotea Origins Part VI)

Series Note: the penultimate installment in my self-indulgent series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. If you’ve Continue Reading →

Full Circle: Heroes and First Posts

This post is a bit of a re-run. But a special one. Since 2009, I have written over 200 tea Continue Reading →

A Tale of Two Siblings (Devotea Origins Part I)

Series Note: I’ve decided to write a series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. And this is Continue Reading →

History is Alive and Well

Last night, Lady Devotea and I put on an event. A tea event, naturally! As part of the Adelaide Wine & Food Continue Reading →

In Search of that Perfect Chest

With a pop-up tea shop in full swing once a month, we decided that we might try some tea chests Continue Reading →

“Arise, Sir Devotea.” Beep. Beep. Beeeep!

Wouldn’t you know it, in the middle of getting knighted for services to tea, my alarm went off and woke me up. Still, I thought Continue Reading →

Steeping Beauty

If you look at 18th and 19th English tea caddies, you’ll see they have a lock. Often, the key was Continue Reading →

Tea and The Dawn of History

Here’s yet another blog where I combine tea and history and travel, albeit with quite a misleading title. From this Continue Reading →

Onwards and Backwards

The last three days in England have been spent without internet for various reasons, and there is a bit of Continue Reading →

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