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Peace or the postponement of conflict

2 years ago Life

Next month, the beautiful South American nation of Colombia has the prospect of peace for the first time in over half a century. Why this topic appears here on a Teamakers’ blog is that Dilmah Founder, Merrill J. Fernando was invited to join a panel at the Foro Futuro Colombia in Cartagena. It was an […]

Celebrating Differences

3 years ago business as a matter of human service

Last night the MJF Centre in Moratuwa, on the outskirts of Colombo, was aglow. It was after dusk but it was not the setting sun that caused the brilliant light but the joy of several hundred children from the MJF Kids programme. They were gathered for their annual presentation, children and youth from severely deprived […]

The simple thing about tea

6 years ago Dilmah, tea, Tea & Health, Tea Gardens, Tea Gastronomy, Tea Industry, Tea Tasting, Unbelievable Tea Experiences

After every session of the Dilmah School of Tea, we come to the realisation that it is always the simplest things that can go wrong when making tea. It is no different whether fine dining restaurant at $20 a pot or at home at 10 cents a bag – tea offers sublime pleasure that is […]

Friendship in a teacup

7 years ago tea, Tea & Health, Unbelievable Tea Experiences

View Full Album There is a powerful emotion that the act of pouring a cup of tea evokes. Visually, the cues include the appearance of the amber liquid pouring into cups, mugs or bowls, and settling from its gentle motion to give rise to wisps of steam. It is also the aroma – sometimes […]

Is it CSR or just business as usual?

10 years ago Dilmah, Ethics, Images of Tea, Nothing Whatsoever to do with Tea, tea, Tea Tasting, Unbelievable Tea Experiences

The June 2008 issue of ‘The Director’ Magazine of the IoD, included a well researched feature on the subject of CSR. It was to me, an informative, yet bewildering overview of the subject. Informative because it is a comprehensive and well researched feature, bewildering because in many cases, the businesses that practice this ‘corporate social […]

Coffee & tea

11 years ago Facts of Tea

Terry Durack, the Independent newspaper’s (UK) restaurant critic and gourmet wrote some years ago in his Food for Thought column: Coffee and tea measure our lives. As youngsters, most of us start with tea, then we leave its safer pleasures behind for the racy glamour of espresso as we venture out into the world. Later […]

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