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Arshille Gorky - Aviation Evolutions of forms under aerodynamic limitations I (1935-1936) i have come across this video from james. he points out two things that i would like to expand on. first and foremost i want to expand a bit further on the topic of tea and money. similarly to james i pointed out at the end of my previous post about this topic that you probably will learn more studying 100g of one particular tea than 10 different 10g samples. at the beginning people often start out by buying a whole range of different teas. they amass a huge range of samples, but chances are high that there is going to be a lot of shit tea in there. there will be some good teas in there as well, but will you as a beginner realise which one is which? could you accurately separate the wheat from the chaff? most likely not. don't get me wrong. it might be good to try the one or the other sample at the very beginning just to get a very basic feeling about what tea is and that there is something ...

"Brain Chain" by Willem den Broeder, 2001 so what does it indeed all mean? "it" being tea, the object of our interest here. we could look at this topic from several angles. from the technical standpoint it is quite simple. tea is a product made from the leaves of camellia sinensis plant. at a closer look it's not that simple anymore. there are things often called tea that are not tea. herbal infusions for example or non standard camellia varietals produced in a similar way than tea. however i am of the opinion that if its not camellia sinensis or its variatals (e.g. camellia sinensis var. assamica) ...                                     ...  it                                                  just    ...

Andrzej Karpiński 1994   i generally don't recommend going cheap on the hobby. you loose more than just your money. you get bad tea, you might risk your health, you waste your time and you don't really gain any valuable experience nor do you learn anything about what makes tea good.   the sooner you accept that you have to pay real money for the good stuff, the sooner you will start making progress in my opinion. good tea is never cheap. but beware! that does not mean in reverse that everything that is expensive is also good. western faced vendors do mark up their tea at very high rates sometimes. sometimes you are the end of a long chain of resellers and might not realise it. i've seen markups as high as 1000%. definately do your research! what helps you accept the fate of an empty wallet is to calculate the price per session. if you are frugal - 4g in an adequate gaiwan can be more than enough for a good time. let's say the tea costs 0,75€/g - and you get good tea at ...