This book is a sensual delight: in it, you learn to explore tea using your senses, including sight, smell, taste, and even sound. Dr. Lovelace describes experiments you can try at home with tea using budget-friendly materials. If you are not interested in performing the experiments, she describes (and shows) her results. This is a fascinating journey into the science of tea you can take without leaving home.
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Alexa Campbell has been a writer since she fell in love with researching and editing articles in school. During her career, she has taught high school English and technical writing in a community college. She ran her own technical communication business where she wrote user manuals and conducted workshops in a variety of writing topics. She is a newcomer to the tea world, and as a self-acknowledged nerd, is absorbing as much as she can about this fascinating field. She lives in Canada, in Winnipeg, which is the geographical centre of North America.