I'm Baaack

Mike snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com/20/05

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You are back, and, as far as I can tell, you are alone. I haven't gotten a single post, other than your own here, in the last 24 hours and more.

Michael

Michael,

I'll fix that. I got a few really good first flushes from Kyela. Kevin is offering a Gopaldhara DJ-41 Oolong First Flush that is very nice: whole, unbroken leaf, high-mountain aromatics. herbs and spice. I can get two nice infusions from it. Recommended.

David Hoffman is offering a Red Pearls organic Keemun that is delightful: flowers, leather, smoke and spice. This is why I drink tea!

Regards, Dean

DPMe8TXe.5790$9a2.3840@trnddc049/20/05 08: snipped-for-privacy@junk.com

Wow. Thanks, Dean. I'm on my way.

M

I keep hearing about David Hoffman and his teas. I don't live in CA, so how can I get a hold of some of his teas? No website yet? Does he have a catalog?

thanks JE formerly LB

Still no website, but you can now beg for a catalogue at:

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com

By the way, give them your postal address.

/Lew

Silk Road Tea's web site is in preparation at:

Robert

delightful:

Michael,

Sorry, I sent that from memory - I got the Red Peach (B-KMF-O).

Dean

Jane, you can also call him at 415-458-8624; he just published a new catalog. You may not speak to him personally, but he has a few acolytes that are pretty knowledgeable. Tell them what kinds of tea you like and why, and they'll point you in the right direction. I got a green Lu An Guapian that's wonderful also: organic, very fresh with light floral and grassy notes. The leaf color is an intense green initially and the liquor is a beautiful chartreuse. Lovely stuff.

Regards, Dean

lu an guapian! one of my favorites. I've got to call. Thanks.

JE

[Dean] [Michael] [Dean] [Michael] OK. It doesn't have peach bits or peach spray, or anything like that, does it now?

[Dean] No. But now that you mention it, I've got a dozen peaches in the frig...now where's my nutcracker...?

Well, I am shocked. After David once gave me a terse condescending lecture over the phone how anything he does is incompatible with these evil beasts we call computers, I never thought that would happen. Reminds me how a working girl in Winnemucca, Nevada once asked me how I became a geologist. I gave her my most heroic version (I have about 20) and ask her the same question back. She looked at me, smiled and answered briefly - "business reasons". I guess Silkroad Teas is after all, a business.

Sasha.

Alex ChaihorskymutZe.3859$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net9/25/05

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Sasha,

You have quite a way with words, young fellow. I guess David changed his mind. He'd never incidentally been condescending toward me. Are you quite sure condescension was what came down from him?

Michael

Dave is a very good guy and a very knowledgeable one. He is also very polite and nice. I am not claiming the opposite. I asked him (after ordering significant amount of tea from him at least twice) if he is interested in any way, shape or form in participating in my program of liquid chromatography of standard computerized brewing matrix (many teas brewed along time and temperature variables and HPLC-ed to find out what comes out when and how... In addition to regular "no" (which is fine) I was given quite a lecture on the subject of computers in general. I could have used a word "patronizing" instead of condescending if I were not a customer. Being one allows me some latitude. That is my understanding of a word "condescending" meaning "from above, with an attitude of an adult speaking to an annoying child". If my understanding is wrong I sincerely apologize, take it back and replace it with "patronizing". Am I over-sensitive an easily annoyed? - Absolutely, as a "new American" I have chips, rock fragments and pottery shards in my shoulders the sizes far greater than physical laws allow. But it was there - I can guarantee you that he absolutely hates anything that has a monitor. Which is fine with me - :)

Sasha.

[Alex] [Michael] It's his blind spot, let's say. Brings out the worst in him. Perhaps young Ned is turning him around on that score. I would have thought your project would have been super-interesting.

Michael

Right. Its still alive, although a friend of mine who ran a large HPLC lab left Stanford for greener pastures. But I am now looking favorable to gas chromatography, which is so much faster and cheaper and easier. If you have a second hand small mass spectrometer wasting space in you garage, give me a buzz. You see I need a large multidimensional aqueous extraction model of Camellia Sinensis for my "main :)" project :))) And its gonna look beautiful too, huge colored cube slowly rotating on my three-screen 9X megamonitor. That alone, I recon, would give our good friends at Silkroads a heart attack...

Roy Fong, however, was very receptive and I think we will start making progress with him for his teas soon. I thought David should have been interested too, but... No regrets, though - its a free country, or so I was told. I think we need couple of luddites here and there, just to keep us technocrats from being too cocky.

Sasha.