Tea: A User's Guide

by Tony Gebely

Overview

Tea: A User's Guide is the most up-to-date and factual guide to specialty tea. This volume presents an extensively peer-reviewed framework for navigating the world of tea whether you are just embarking on your tea journey or whether you have been drinking tea your entire life.
In this book, you'll discover:

How tea is grown and processed.

How so many tea products are derived from a single species of plant.

What chemical changes occur in tea leaves during processing.

How 130 famous teas from around the world are classified.

How to expertly prepare and evaluate tea.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998103006
Publisher:	Eggs and Toast Media, LLC
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Edition description:	Premium Color ed.
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Defining Tea
Chapter 2 Tea Growing & Harvesting
Chapter 3 Chemical Composition of Tea Leaves
Chapter 4 Tea Processing
Chapter 5 Tea Types
Chapter 6 Green Tea
Chapter 7 Yellow Tea
Chapter 8 White Tea
Chapter 9 Wulong Tea
Chapter 10 Black Tea
Chapter 11 Fermented Tea
Chapter 12 Altered Tea
Chapter 13 Kinetics of Steeping
Chapter 14 Water Quality
Chapter 15 Steeping Variables
Chapter 16 Putting It All Together
Chapter 17 Evaluating Tea
Chapter 18 Storing the Leaves

Editorial Reviews

"Tony has written the most useful user's guide to tea I've ever seen, it's a contribution anybody would be proud to make, but precious few could have imagined"--James Norwood Pratt

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