The Tea Book: Experience the World's Finest Teas, Qualities, Infusions, Rituals, Recipes

This highly visual and complete guide to all things tea is excellent. The Tea Book is filled with fine photos and concise information. From the history of tea, the wide variety tea plants, the leaf gathering, processing, and brewing, to the different tea cultures around the world, the various health benefits of different herbs, pictures of many tea tools, pots, and kettles, and plenty of recipes to top it off. A pretty classy, informative, and enjoyable read. Although I found a majority of the recipes a bit too fancy or time consuming, I did appreciate that there is a page on the somewhat complicated process of making kombucha. My mother also enjoyed this book very much, so I would safely assume it makes a proper gift for tea lovers.

I was born in Ceylon, Sri Lanka, my home was on a tea estate. This book expanded my knowledge of the industry on a global basis. A very enjoyable read

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I’m about halfway through reading this book and it’s been great. It explains the different types of plants used, the different processes used to make the different tea types, and the popular tea blends, before looking at the growing regions around the world and tea culture and traditions in those places. Some parts are a little breath maybe, but it is a very good introduction to the wider variety available and has made me curious far beyond the black tea blends I was curious about originally. Who knows, I might even end up trying some of the recipes at the back of the book.

I love this book, more than expected. A book to gift anybody loves tea, for either hardened experts and beginners.