The authors open our eyes and introduce our palates to tea-tasting, as they list the top fifty teas of the world, complete with tasting sheets, and include comments and advice for each.
And with illustrations, The Tea Drinker's Handbook informs and instructs with both fascinating text and alluring images. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. Published October 1st by Abbeville Press first published More Details Original Title.
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I was delighted to discover this book in a tea boutique in Paris. Dec 02, Eugene Levonchouk rated it liked it Shelves: owned , read-in-english , non-fiction. And for that purpose it's a good choice. There are a few minor wrinkles due to translation from the French. All measurements are presented simultaneously in metric and US systems, which is admirably universalist but becomes tedious and arbitrary.
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Sallie Y. Elizabeth Foy. Have a question about this product? Ask us here. Ask a Question What would you like to know about this product? Connect With Us. Mathias Minet is a taster. We spend several months every year walking the plantations from Darjeeling to Shizuoka and from Taiwan to the Golden Triangle. In our twenty years of visiting the plantations, we have built up some very precious relationships with the plantation owners and workers and as a result have had many professional secrets confided in us.
But we felt that it would be pointless acquiring all this knowledge simply to store it and not pass it on. The courses the school offers have enjoyed continuing success, reinforcing our conviction that the world of tea, with its many different facets, is capturing the imagination of an ever-growing public.
It is against this background that this book has been written. We believe that tea, with its wonderful range of flavors, has been ignored in gastronomic circles for too long. Rather than simply giving an account of all its many aspects a number of books have already done this, suitably bathed in nostalgia for the old days we prefer to take you on a visit to the tea gardens. There cannot be a better way to discover how tea is grown that to meet the people who, with patience and love, every day devote their knowledge to pleasing tea aficionados the world over.
To ensure the consumer is satisfied, an intermediary is needed: the professional taster, whose role is similar to his counterpart in the wine trade, using his expertise to evaluate thousands of teas every year. As with wine, this skill can only be acquired after a long and absorbing apprenticeship. Nonetheless, the art of tasting is open to everyone, and anyone who is interested in tea will discover the basic information in this book, together with a variety of indispensable tips about preparing it.
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