Review: What an interesting book!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2012
As an avid tea drinker, I was keen to buy this book when I saw it. I settled down with my 'cuppa' (as we say in England) and read it straight through; it's most interesting.The author takes us through everything she promises in the title and, while I knew some of it, plenty was new. I hadn't, for example, come across the term "pu-erh teas" before.I like the section on making a perfect cup of tea and won't be quite so keen to re-use my teabags after what she said...I'd like to have seen more on the British and American tea drinking cultures because they uncover some fascinating stories and culture, and maybe a couple of pictures, but maybe that's for volume two, and the book stands well as it is.