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Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties
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Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties
Current price: $29.95
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Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties
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This widely praised bestseller has been updated to incorporate the changing tastes of tea drinkers, developments in production, the impact of climate change, and an expanded and more highly developed tea market. This third edition improves
with this revised and extended content plus new photographs.
called
"the reference work we've been waiting for", noting its value to students.
praised
as a "definitive guide to tea (that) will appeal to die-hard tea enthusiasts."
found
"impressive, well researched, and complete."
takes readers on an escorted tour of the world's tea-growing countries China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam and East Africa where they will discover how, like a fine wine, it is "terroir" (soil and climate) that gives a tea its unique characteristics.
The authors own the popular Camellia Sinensis Tea House in Montreal which imports teas directly from producers in these countries. Each author focuses on specific tea regions where they travel every year to work with growers and producers, discover new teas and keep abreast of developments that might, for example, remove a tea from the tea house's menu.
The book covers black, green, white, yellow, oolong, pu'er, perfumed, aromatic and smoked teas and includes:
Special features that loyal tea drinkers will especially enjoy are: