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Scott Dorsey
 
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Default Kalami Tea Revisited

Okay, I asked earlier about "Kalami" and "Barooti" teas, which are sold
to the middle eastern market.

I had thought all of these teas were Assam, although recently I found a
Chinese tea in a Persian market in Washington which claimed to be "Kalami
of Yunnan." But most of them are.

It turns out, and I want to thank my local Persian acoustician for the
translation, that "Baroot" means "gunpowder" in Persia, and that the
BOP-sized tea is sold as "Barooti" meaning like gunpowder.

He said that "Gulabi" is a Persian word meaning "rose water," but he
didn't see how that applied to tea. He thinks "Kalami" is an Arabic
transliteration, and says anything with a G in it is not Arabic.

Anyway, so this is a little bit more information about all this tea
that I have been drinking....
--scott
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