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Space Cowboy > wrote:
>Anybody have any. Laura Childs mentions it in her second book
>Gunpowder Green in the Tea Shop Mystery series. It is a large tea
>producing area in southern India. I didnt see any for sale in the
>first couple of pages of Google hits. I suspect it ends up as
>ubiquitous CTC.


I had a Munnari CTC a couple years ago, from a local Indian market. I
am trying to think of the brand... it came in a small vinyl pouch and
it was pleasant but entirely undistinguished. There may be something better
out there; certainly there is a long history of tea making there and a
tea museum that is a big tourist attraction.
--scott
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