All the tea in China
Tea lovers will want to curl up - a pot of their favorite variety at hand - and linger over every informative page of this comprehensive account of tea's history and qualities. Chow and Kramer focus on Chinese teas and tea practices; their wonderfully detailed discussions leave no stone unturned in bringing to light all facets of tea as a plant, drink and institution. Two particularly interesting chapters center on tea's health benefits (which seem to be wide ranging and consequential) and how to make a good cup of tea (no easy task, to which any tea drinker can attest)
Print Book, English, ©1990
China Books and Periodicals, San Francisco, ©1990
xvi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780835121941, 9780835121972, 0835121941, 0835121976
21596701
China : the tea tradition
Tea goes to the world
Chinese tea customs
The teahouse, center of local life
The Japanese art of tea
Ceramics and other tea "equipage"
Tea growing and processing
Some tea chemistry
Tea and your health
How to make a "nice cup of tea"
Judging, storing, other uses
Fifty famous Chinese teas