I just saw the Turkish/German film which has recently opened in the
USA as _The Edge of Heaven_ (original title _Auf der anderen Seite_.)
It isn't *about* tea, to be honest, but it's the best movie I've seen
in quite a while. To me it seems pretty close to perfect.

Here's the on-topic part: You see a people drinking tea in little
Turkish glasses a few times and, near the end, there's a glimpse of a
woman actually picking tea leaves on a hillside, though the latter
isn't even mentioned in the dialogue.

/Lew
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On 2 Jun, 21:00, Lewis Perin > wrote:
> Here's the on-topic part: You see a people drinking tea in little
> Turkish glasses a few times and, near the end, there's a glimpse of a
> woman actually picking tea leaves on a hillside, though the latter
> isn't even mentioned in the dialogue.

Just one observation from many visits to the Black Sea tea growing
area - if the woman was hand picking leaf it was posed - true hand
plucking disappeared many years ago - if she was using harvesting
shears (like hedge clipping shears but with a collecting box attached
to one blade) then she just happened to be in shot.

Nigel at Teacraft

are they posting pics from the WTE anywhere or do we have to wait for
it to finish?

On 3 Jun, 00:24, SN > wrote:
> are they posting pics from the WTE anywhere or do we have to wait for
> it to finish?

Show finished yesterday and if last year is a guide I expect they will
put pictures on site www.worldteaexpo.com within days.

Incidentally www.worldteanews.com is a rapidly improving information
point and resource for those with a commercial foot in the tea world.

Nigel at Teacraft

Nigel > writes:

> On 2 Jun, 21:00, Lewis Perin > wrote:
> > Here's the on-topic part: You see a people drinking tea in little
> > Turkish glasses a few times and, near the end, there's a glimpse of a
> > woman actually picking tea leaves on a hillside, though the latter
> > isn't even mentioned in the dialogue.
>
> Just one observation from many visits to the Black Sea tea growing
> area - if the woman was hand picking leaf it was posed - true hand
> plucking disappeared many years ago - if she was using harvesting
> shears (like hedge clipping shears but with a collecting box attached
> to one blade) then she just happened to be in shot.

It wasn't a box that was connected to the shears; more of a cloth bag,
it seemed. She actually had a line of dialogue, by the way.
It was supposedly near Trabzond.

/Lew
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