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Jeff Fuchs
Aug 3, 20211 min read
Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights
It was upon the months' long journeys along the Tea Horse Road that the big-leafed 'assamica' material and eternal panacea, tea, would...
Jeff Fuchs
May 20, 20211 min read
International Tea Day - May the Leaf Long Reign
To the leaves, the pluckers, the makers, the sippers, the sources, the transporters and all of the tellers of tales. And tho this group...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 10, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Walks and Words
“When you walk through mountains, you appreciate any arrival. When you walk to a place, you can speak about a place”. An interview about...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 26, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came
A simple tea room in Weishan, Yunnan, and one of the only tea rooms in my life that I failed to actually have tea in. Weishan was another...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 17, 20211 min read
The Tea Sessions 2 - The Umami Grip - In partnership with Outpost Magazine
Continuing on with my tea-fuelled series in partnership with Outpost Magazine, The Tea Sessions. This second piece is a (brief) departure...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 7, 20212 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some Courage
Ascending up to the Sho La Pass in northwestern Yunnan in May there would always be a chance of weather issues, but it would still be a...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 23, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings
It was from this patch of grassland near Napa Lake, just north of my home in Dukezong (old town of 'Shangrila') that our expedition...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 23, 20201 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tenzin
Legend, guardian of caravans, and hunter of ‘tea thieves’, Tenzin. We had heard of this legend but worried we wouldn’t track him down...
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