Tea Journey book editor Jodi Webb interviews Vicki Delany, the author of multiple bestselling books, talking about her new book – Tea with Jam and Dread, exploring how she goes about creating her characters and writing her books
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• Tea Books
Find stories and wisdom steeped in tea’s influence.
Book Review: Art of Tea
Art of Tea is a readable book that takes us through the author’s journey from despair to recovery and developing a successful tea business. On the first page, he reveals his philosophy: “tea is timeless, and it’s analog. It offers us a simple way to incorporate sensory experience and ritual in […]
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Book Review: Spill The Tea
Spill the Tea is a quick primer on the blended tea business. The book is pocketbook size, 5×8 inches, and, at 110 pages, is a quick and easy read. Dietz became interested in tea at 15 when he tried it to soothe a sore throat. Soon he was reading avidly, both books and […]
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Book Review: Learning by Brewing
Learning by Brewing is an apt title for this book, for that is what Jens Dennig wants us to do. He wants us to try teas and decide for ourselves what we like. Of course, he has pages of suggestions. This book is a veritable encyclopedia of tea, although, as Dennig […]
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Jesse Q. Sutanto on Tea and Murder
“I think the humor came very naturally, because they’re based on things I have experienced with my parents. Pretty much everything Vera says in the book are based on things my parents have said. Like, just last week my dad said to me, “If you go to sleep after nine p.m. you’ll get a brain tumor.”
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13 Spooky Tea Reads For Halloween
We associate tea with soothing, calm moments (can’t you just feel yourself relaxing?). What better way to keep readers interested than to lull them into a happy, tea-induced mood and then BAM! throw the unexpected.
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Book Review: Tea Leaf Reading
We all enjoy a good cuppa tea, but why not take that enjoyment step further with doing a little tea leaf reading as an added bonus! Tea leaf reading, while it sounds like a parlour trick, is a simple form of divination that is fun and can be done by […]
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Tea and Romance Between the (Book) Covers
Teatime allows us to slow down and savor life – and what better way to savor life than by escaping with a good book? Put on the kettle and nestle into your favorite chair to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a romantic read. These tea romances explore many relationships: romantic, friend, family, and even our relationship with ourselves.
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Tea for Dummies
When I do a tea tasting with customers or friends, I often give them our tasting wheel to help them figure out words to best describe their experiences. It is a bit more fun than using a rating scale. If you have ever been to a tasting, you’ve probably seen something like this before. The same words can describe flavour for almost anything you are tasting.
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Easy Leaf Tea, by Timothy d’Offay
Easy Leaf Tea is a tea recipe book with a difference. This sumptuously illustrated book focuses on recipes for brewing tea and tea-centric kitchen creations. This isn’t a book about cakes with a dash of tea thrown in; this is tea, tea, and more tea, but with a twist. Tea is, as it rightly should be, the star of the show.
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Tea Under the Palms
This book is for every person who has ever dreamed of having formal tea with the upper classes, perhaps at Downton Abbey. The photographs of bone China cups and saucers, three-tiered plates of scones, savories, and sweets, and settings for enjoying afternoon tea’s decadence will make you swoon — a true hedonist’s delight.
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A Nerd’s Tea Lab
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. This is a fascinating journey into the science of tea you can take without leaving home.
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The True History of Tea
The True History of Tea, a meticulously researched yet readable 280 pages of travel back in time. Reviewer Kyle Whittington, the founder of the TeaBookClub in London, describes the work of sinologist Victor H. Mair and journalist Erling Hoh as QUOTE “one of those rare instances where, rather than the dry read that the title suggests, the reader is instead treated to an engaging and captivating page-turner.”
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Roy Fong: A Chinese-American Journey
At age 6, on his way to school, Roy Fong would linger at a Hong Kong food stand where day laborers were making gongfu cha. Sometimes someone would offer him a cup, and he never forgot the wonderful aroma and taste.
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Review: Tasting Qualities – The Past and Future of Tea
Tasting Qualities: The Past and the Future of Tea by Sarah Besky manages to easily deconstruct and demystify the space between the plantation and the cup of tea.
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Kakuzo Okakura and the Cup of Humanity
Kakuzo Okakura first described Japanese tea culture to a readership in the U.S. in The Book of Tea in 1906. Since then, his book, his ideas, and Japanese tea culture have traveled across the world.
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Of Family & Tea: Novelist Lisa See’s Tea Journey
Six-time New York Times bestselling author, Lisa See, loves tea so much that she wrote a novel with Pu-erh tea as its historical background. This comes as no surprise if one knows the See family’s journey, of immigrants in the Wild West and Chinatown with a dash of Hollywood, intertwined with tea.
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Tea Books for Gifting
How Does One Choose What Tea to Drink? The answer is both simple and profound. 101 Teas to Steep Before You Die is far more than a bucket list compiled by four respected tea experts with impeccable credentials. In 256 pages, the book distills a millennium of tea heritage into 101 unforgettable cups. It is both a love letter to Camellia sinensis and a practical guide to brewing and enjoying every style of tea.
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Tea: A User’s Guide
Tea: A User’s Guide By Tony Gebely Purchase at World of Tea Eggs and Toast Media If you are one of those who load the software and ignore the user’s guide then regret never fully utilizing its features, you need to read this book. Tea is as complex as you […]
Read More Tea and Romance Between the (Book) Covers
Teatime allows us to slow down and savor life – and what better way to savor life than by escaping with a good book? Put on the kettle and nestle into your favorite chair to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a romantic read. These tea romances explore many relationships: romantic, friend, family, and even our relationship with ourselves.
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