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A Necessary Luxury
Tea drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century’s perspective, presents a unique overview of Victorian culture. Tea was a necessity and a luxury; it was seen as masculine as well as feminine; it symbolized the exotic and the domestic; and it represented both moderation and excess. Tea was flexible enough to accommodate and to mark subtle differences in social status, to mediate these differences between individuals, and to serve as a shared cultural symbol within England. In A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England, Julie E. Fromer analyzes tea histories, advertisements, and nine Victorian novels, including Alice’s Adventures i...
The World Tea Encyclopaedia
The world boasts myriad teas, most of them lying undiscovered by Western cultures still rooted in the view that tea comes from a tissue bag at breakfast or 4pm. The World Tea Encyclopaedia aims to shed light on this wealth of variety and to debunk the snobbishness and doctrine that can scare off newcomers from the joys of tea connoisseurship. For almost 20 years, Will Battle has been tasting teas and creating blends for tea lovers all over the world. He has lived and worked alongside tea producers in Asia and Africa, visiting hundreds of tea gardens and gaining unparalleled expertise in the process. Here, he gives an in-depth look at the wealth of teas on offer to everyone who loves to steep...
Tea in China
Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it. The shift in drinking habits that occurred in late medieval China cannot be understood without an appreciation of the fact that Buddhist monks were responsible for not only changing people's attitudes toward the intoxicating substance, but also the proliferation of tea drinking. Monks had enjoyed a long association with tea in...
Tea
After water, tea is the second most consumed drink in the world. 'Tea' takes the reader to almost every corner of the globe, looking at the phenomenon which has touched every part of the world.
Tea, Its Mystery and History
Offering stories and detailed information about the beverage's earliest history, Tea, Its Mystery and Historyincludes extracts from journals of early Chinese tea planters, legends surrounding the origin of the tea plant and more.
The Biography of Tea
How could a relaxing cup of tea become a symbol of revolution? This fascinating new book relates the thousands-year-old history of tea and its sometimes tumultuous trade. Find out how different teas are grown, harvested, and sold and how the trade of tea has changed the world.
The Book of Tea
SHORTLISTED for The Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2016 From the founders of Teapigs, this is a book about tea like no other. Packed full of infographics and illustrations, as well as recipes, this complete compendium is a celebration of tea-drinking around the world: from drinking masala chai in tea shacks in India or from a samovar in Russia, to the dramatic pouring of Moroccan mint tea and the brewing of a salty butter tea in Tibet. From plant to pot, learn everything there is to know about tea; how it's enjoyed around the world and the origins of different teas, where they come from and how they are processed. Take a visual journey, with the tea leaf, and see what happens during the...
Passion for Tea
During the late 1980's, the city of New Orleans became plagued by a drug epidemic that took hold of nearly every major city in the United States, crack cocaine. The ninth ward section of New Orleans was by no means spared. The drug affected both young and old, and propelled the city to the infamous title of 'murder capitol of the world'. House of Killers delves into a world where the laws no longer apply to its citizens. It tells the story of Ben Holland and how he rose to the top of the city's drug trade. A fictional story, House of Killers peels back the curtains and gives you an inside look into the world of an urban drug organization in the city of New Orleans. Ben and his friends embark...
Little Tea Book
Through a compilation of stories, this 1903 volume traces the history, culture, and manners that tea, and the ceremonies surrounding tea, have inspired in various parts of the world.
The Story of Tea
The Story of Tea traces the history, myths and rituals of growing and drinking tea from the tea gardens of China to the roadside dhabas of India. Thomas Garraway's first public sale of tea in England in 1657 was of historic importance. For this he published and distributed a poster... "The leaf of such known virtues ... that it is sold for twice its weight in silver. It maketh the body active and lusty. It helpth the headache, giddiness and heaviness and thereof. It is very good against stone and gravel, cleaning the kidneys and ureter. It is good against crudities, strengthening the weakness of the Ventricle or Stomack, causing good appetite and Deigestion and particularly for men of a corpulent body and such as are great eaters of flesh... It prevents and cures ague, surefeits...and fevers, by infusing a fit quantity of the leaf, thereby provoking a most gentle vomit...It drives away all pains in the Collick proceeding from wind and purgeth safety the Gall..." So said Thomas Garraway and indeed, many belived him!
