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The country’s leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate.
The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the country’s leading tea professionals, The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea is an illuminating resource for tea drinkers interested in developing and refining their palate as well as their understanding of the complex agricultural, historical, and cultural significance of tea.
Drawing on his singular experience, Michael Harney masterly explores the full range of teas, revealing how each tea is distinctive, with a taste that derives from a precise combination of cultivation and production techniques, and influenced by the geography as well as its history. These lively profiles of diverse tea varieties—from delicate white tea to aged black puerh tea—include brewing instructions and vivid descriptions of the beverage scent, taste, and appearance; everything you need to become a connoisseur.
Tea has long been popular in the United States, but only recently have Americans treated this nuanced beverage with a deeper curiosity, more refined approach, and wider appetite. The Wall Street Journal reports that total U.S. tea sales are nearly four times what they were in 1990, and this growing population of discriminate consumers will celebrate the new vocabulary provided in The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea.
Unique in scope, candor, and accessibility, The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea will quickly become the classic reference and staple in the library of every serious tea drinker.
Introduction
How to use this book
A guide to tasting teas 9
White teas 17
Chinese green teas 29
Japanese green teas 51
Oolongs 75
Yellow teas 97
Chinese black teas 103
British Legacy Black Teas 121
Darjeeling Black Teas 127
Nilgiri Black Teas 139
Assam Black Teas 141
Ceylon Black Teas 153
Kenyan Black Teas 163
British Black Tea Blends 167
Puerhs 173
The Future of Tea 183
App Tea-tasting menus 187
App From tree to tea: the chemistry of tea 193
App Tea through time: a brief history 205
Tea sources 211
Bibliography 215
Index 219
Anonymous
Posted January 5, 2009
This is a tea book with a new purpose: teaching you how to taste teas so you can have fun while choosing the teas you want to stock at home. The book also gives extremely useful information about a number of specific teas/tea categories: for example, did you know you can brew a single teaspoon of puerh tea up to 12 times if you do it right? This detail alone will save you the price of the book in nothing flat.
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Posted September 23, 2008
This is a fantastic guide for all of us who've always enjoyed tea, but never bothered to become knowledgeable. . . guaranteed to improve your tea drinking experience
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Posted December 23, 2009
I love this book. It is informative, even scholorly, yet easy to understand. And it has information on every tea I could possibly think of, and quite a few others beside!
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about the tea they drink, or about tea they might want to try.
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Overview
Read Michael Harney's posts on the Penguin Blog.
The country’s leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate.
The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the country’s leading tea professionals, The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea is an illuminating resource for tea drinkers interested in developing and refining their palate ...