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Tea Poetry
After porridge after rice after drinking tea I open the window and sit and gaze at mountains survey every realm throughout Jambu during...
Giacomo Caruso
Jun 131 min read
January 2025 fieldwork in Darjeeling
A research team led by myself and Prof. Subrata Sankar Bagchi from the University of Calcutta (Alex from ORT and my colleague at Hubei...
Giacomo Caruso
Feb 132 min read
A visit to a virtuous cooperative: Tinjure. Ilam, Nepal.
I visited in January a model tea cooperative in eastern Nepal, coming all the way from Darjeeling, where I had left my fieldwork team,...
Giacomo Caruso
Feb 92 min read


Through a traditional earthenware community in Sichuan: Longchang
Last week, because I am a relentless nomad, I caught a sleeper train (comfy and slow, very meditative) to Longchang town 隆昌, in Eastern...
Giacomo Caruso
Dec 2, 20242 min read


Loushuiyuan Tea Cooperative: Community, solidarity and how to speak without words.
I was charmed by Manyingtai the first time I stepped on its muddy terrain, through its jungle paths, into its people's old wooden huts....
Giacomo Caruso
Oct 19, 20241 min read
6-7/10/2024 - South Village, Wuli township, Enshi Prefecture. Old Tea Forest
In the first weekend of October, with my friends Alex from One River Tea Cooperative and Jason, a Canadian student and tea connoisseur,...
Giacomo Caruso
Oct 11, 20242 min read
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