2024 the best tea of the world review

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The Tea Book helps you explore the blends, tastings, and ceremonies from around the world and create your own delicious tea traditions.

Where does tea come from? In The Tea Book learn where in the world tea is cultivated and how to drink each variety at its best, with steeping notes and step-by-step recipes.

The Tea Book is your world tour of the art of tea. Visit tea plantations from India to Kenya and explore maps of the world's most important growing regions. Learn to recognize tea-leaf varietals and spot the best types from each region. Recreate a Japanese tea ceremony with a guide to storied traditions and practical implements. Discover the health benefits of green tea. Craft the perfect Chai tea. Try a tasting course to cultivate your sense of tea color, aroma, and taste. Explore the spectrum of herbal, plant, and fruit infusions. The Tea Book covers it all, including history, tradition, and 75 classic and contemporary recipes to steep and share.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1465436065
Publisher ‏ : ‎ DK; Illustrated edition (July 7, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781465436061
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1465436061
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.86 x 9.44 inches
Reviewer: Lili
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Visual Treat!
Review: Book time! I have been voraciously reading, it is the time of year where I go deep into the books and tend not to come out again until spring. Today's book is The Tea Book by Linda Gaylard and by one of my favorite publishers, DK. See, DK has a tendency to publish really pretty books, their book on Gemstones is still a classic favorite, but this is about tea and not rocks. From the moment I cracked open the book I was impressed with the visuals, it is beautiful!But looks alone do not make a book (unless it was a photo book, of course) so how is the substance? First off I will say, I think I found THE perfect book for people new to tea and with a voracious appetite for knowledge. This covers so many of the basics, but instead of stopping there it delves deep into various cultures, history, and regions. I was pleased to see coverage on Korean tea and their tea culture, along with Vietnam and Kenya, and not just the typical China, Japan, India, and Sri Lanka.There is a large section on recipes, but it is not the more trendy cooking with teas but different drinks using tea. Frankly most of them look so delicious, I plan on breaking a few of them out for events when I have to serve tea to a bunch of people. So many delicious looking recipes, plus a method for making popping spheres meaning an upgrade to bubble teas.Along with lots of juicy information about tea and recipes, there is a section on herbal teas/tisanes. I had mixed feelings on this, on the one hand it was very valuable information (the wheel of healing was my favorite) and herbal teas are definitely a big part of the tea world, but on the other hand this is space that could have been filled with more info about tea!At times I wish this book would have delved deeper into various topics, mostly because I really enjoy Linda's writing style (I have been following her blog for a while, good reading there!) and would have loved to have seen more of it combined with DK's signature bombastic visuals. I find myself daydreaming about a book of this style devoted entirely to Yunnan's tea culture or Vietnamese tea. Again, I really cannot stress how I think everyone interested in tea should buy this book, even though a lot of the information presented was a refresher for me, I loved reading it because it is so well written and enjoyable.

Reviewer: Andy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Everything You Want To Know About Tea
Review: This highly visual and complete guide to all things tea is excellent. The Tea Book is filled with fine photos and concise information. From the history of tea, the wide variety tea plants, the leaf gathering, processing, and brewing, to the different tea cultures around the world, the various health benefits of different herbs, pictures of many tea tools, pots, and kettles, and plenty of recipes to top it off. A pretty classy, informative, and enjoyable read. Although I found a majority of the recipes a bit too fancy or time consuming, I did appreciate that there is a page on the somewhat complicated process of making kombucha. My mother also enjoyed this book very much, so I would safely assume it makes a proper gift for tea lovers.

Reviewer: LL Kirby
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A lovely book for tea people.
Review: I really like this book. It’s colorful, with good quality paper, interesting and well-written. I will enjoy learning about different teas from different regions. And it has pages and pages of how-to’s and many recipes. It will look great on my coffee table when I’ve finished reading it. It made me wonder if the author, Linda Gaylard, has authored any other books. I intend to find out.

Reviewer: Oneirae
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting
Review: Interesting book, though I think I needed somthing more in depth. I read this in one night.

Reviewer: Emily Rivera
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book
Review: I absolutely love this book. It is formatted in a neat way where you can open any page and start reading. Perfect coffee table book. But as an avid tea lover, i learned a lot from this book as well. It tells the history of tea, brewing methods, traditional tea ceremony's around the world, and even offers some tea blend recipes.

Reviewer: tracy wishom
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Real tea time 🙂
Review: This is a beautiful book, the pictures are amazing. I drank tea with my grandmother and she also made it so special, with cubed sugar (something I never saw) So I've always wanted to know the true art of drinking tea. And the servings are so right for me. Thanks 😘

Reviewer: M
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect Condition; Great Book!
Review: Wow, I ordered this for my mom for Christmas Sunday night, and it arrived before noon on a Tuesday! I'm incredibly happy with the speedy shipping and how considerate Amazon is when they deliver the package. (The box is always in perfect condition, and the contents inside are never damaged inside -- beats UPS and FedEx, that's for sure!)As for the product itself, it looks like an incredible book! It has many colorful images and graphics -- great for people who are visual learners. I flipped through the pages, and it's very well-organized and has a nice balance between infographic/charts/maps, the production process of different teas, history of tea and tea culture/rituals, and tea recipes (which mentions health benefits of each recipe and the exact temperature for proper brewing). It really has something for every tea lover.Thank you!!

Reviewer: Sarah
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great resource for avid tea drinkers and beginning blenders
Review: I originally found this book at the library and loved it. My interest in tea is definitley beyond beginner level so this resource is a great reference for where teas are sourced, flavor profiles and recipes/blending suggestioins. Great photos and info tidbits about tea drinking round the world. Well done book overall, I would reccomend this for a tea enthusiast as well as someone who is just starting out their passion for tea.

Reviewer: KenLongCanada
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: My wife loves tea and collects rare vintages from around the globe. She loved this usefull gift, a pleasure to look at and filled with great information.

Reviewer: Dan Ewing
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I’m about halfway through reading this book and it’s been great. It explains the different types of plants used, the different processes used to make the different tea types, and the popular tea blends, before looking at the growing regions around the world and tea culture and traditions in those places.Some parts are a little breath maybe, but it is a very good introduction to the wider variety available and has made me curious far beyond the black tea blends I was curious about originally. Who knows, I might even end up trying some of the recipes at the back of the book.

Reviewer: J. Cottrill
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A fun read with lots of information to start you on your tea journey. Written in an engaging way by a Canadian expert. A good part of the book is recipes, but there is also general information on making tea properly, where teas come from what what makes them all different, and even information on the health benefits of various tisanes.

Reviewer: María
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: En inglés, aviso para despistados. Es un libro muy completo, toca muchos temas relativos al té, desde su producción en diversas zonas del mundo explicando las diferencias, hasta incluir recetas de distintos tipos de té en países donde tiene una relevancia especial. Casi cada doble página (quizás incluso todas, no lo tengo a la vista ahora mismo) está diseñada en forma de esquemas, o a modo de pequeños artículos que están ilustrados cada uno con una imagen. Diseño por tanto muy ameno (en mi opinión), que facilita la lectura, que permite disfrutarlo poco a poco en lectura continuada o como libro de consulta. Baste decir que yo nunca había conseguido tener clara la diferencia entre los distintos tipos de té (negro, verde, azul, rojo, amarillo... ¿cada uno era fermentado, ahumado, tostado...?) y que gracias al esquema que incluye esta obra he podido ver por fin qué procesos comparten cada uno y en qué se diferencian. No me compré la versión en español porque la traducción tenía malas críticas aquí en Amazon.

Reviewer: Sakura
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: good