On the tea plantations in India, there is a system for looking after the babies and infants. The babies are placed in hanging cribs while their mothers pluck the tea leaves in the fields. There is no roof, just a canopy. The mothers take turns to look after the little ones, rocking them while they sing lullabies. As you walk around the tea plantations you often hear their gentle singing.
5 October 2012
Sometimes I hear people say that they would drink tea if only they knew how to go about it, and that they worried about getting it wrong. But tea is…
16 November 2010
The harvesting of leaves used to make Pu Er is interesting. Here, in the west of Yunnan near the border with Myanmar, the tea plants are left in a semi-wild…
15 January 2013
I hear that there is much talk of marriage at the moment in France, and the opportunity has arisen for me to tell you what I think of it. If…
31 August 2010
A beautiful landscape doesn’t always make a good tea. When I come from Bagdogra (India) and start the three-hour ascent into the Himalayan foothills, I love nothing more than stopping…
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