Stars: 4
Review by: Mandy Apgar
I didn't know
what to think of this and was rather nicely surprised. The book is very
comprehensive for its size, being an account of tea cultivation and
culture and how it was brought ("snuck" would
be a more appropriate word, sort of) out of China and into more popular
consumption and consciousness. Goes into its early history in China of
course, how it was probably first "discovered" and farmed, how for ages
people thought black and green teas were from
different plants - boy did that cause a lot of problems - and how
troublesome it was to get tea seedlings out of Chinese or Indian
plantations and the rigors of the early tea trade once England
established its hold over China.
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