Tea Book Reviews
Scanning through this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Tea
Downloaded from here – http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/769
Another tea book review is up on my site. Tea: History Terroir Varieties is a great book by the team at Camellia Sinensis Tea House.
http://www.leavesofcha.com/blogs/tea-book-reviews/65215941-tea-history-terroirs-varieties
My local B&N didn’t have any of the books that I’m lusting after in this thread but I did pick up a copy of The Tea Book by Linda Gaylard (DK): http://www.amazon.com/The-Tea-Book-DK/dp/1465436065
It’s a nice introduction to tea. It starts out with the anatomy of a tea plant, how it’s grown, harvested, processed, etc. I also like how it talks about the different regions and goes into some detail on tea around the world/tea ceremonies (China, Japan, Korea). I learned some new stuff from this book. It has a flavor wheel which helps you get into tasting and describing tea the way professionals do. There’s also a bunch of recipes in the back but I haven’t tried those.
You can get the Tea book directly from the Camellia Sinensis Tea House website. I’ve seen it at one or two other tea stores but that’s the best bet.
I didn’t read your review, but when I read this book I thought the typography was really badly done.
Was it the font chosen? The layout? I didn’t notice that and found if very readable and easy on the eyes.
My only beef was the quality of the physical book production; my spine is already coming unglued, like so many mass produced and print-on-demand “perfect” bindings out there.
There were places where there were no spaces in between words. It happened especially on the intro flyleaf to each chapter. They were really hard to read.
Hmmm…I reviewed the second edition. I wonder if you read the first?
In thinking about it more, there were also some of the idiosyncrasies that come with a translation. The book was originally done in French, I believe, although they don’t credit a translator (another literary pet peeve of mine). It could also be that those idiosyncrasies are those of someone writing in a second language.
I’ve been reading The Tea Horse Road, by M. Freeman and S. Ahmed. It is mostly about the road, but the first couple of chapters are mostly tea. It is a coffee-table book: heavy and probably expensive, but I was able to get in via inter-library loan.
I love the pictures. Each chapter has about a dozen pages of text then dozens of pages of large pictures illustrating the text. Especially recommended for Puerh drinkers.
Any great book about chinese green tea only?
Kinda hard to find any that are on JUST Chinese green tea—but a lot of books on China tea in particular will spend at least a good chunk on greens.
Chen Jason’s 4 World-Famous Chinese Green Teas might be worth checking out. Both of his books in this series (A Tea Lover’s Travel Diary) are pretty image-heavy, but there’s a few pages of text at the beginning of each chapter (both Chinese and English), and it’s still a pretty interesting read.
Green Gold by Dan M. Etherington details China’s tea economy post WWII.
Liquid Jade by Beatrice Hohenegger doesn’t focus on China, but more China’s trade with other countries. Haven’t read this one so I’d suggest looking up some reviews.
Might also be worth just poking around on amazon and looking at the ‘recommended books’ for searches, as I spotted a few that seem to focus on tea.
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