If pressed to choose a favorite type of tea, I wouldn’t have a problem. I’d go with any one of a number of single-estate black varieties from Assam, a state in northeastern India. Though it’s important to note that much of the tea grown in Assam, the world’s single largest growing region, is not necessarily… Continue reading

It’s been a while since our last roundup of tea books, but that doesn’t mean that the flow of said books has abated. Here are a few titles that have just come out or are on publisher’s calendars for upcoming months. Half of the eight titles mentioned take a look at China’s connection to tea… Continue reading

As I’ve noted before, on more than a few occasions, the Internet and the trend toward digitizing old books has opened a whole new world of access to tea books from days gone by. But to be perfectly honest, with their somewhat dry style and specialized subject matter many of these books have languished in… Continue reading

As coincidence would have it I came to the writings of Daniel Reid quite a while before I took up tea drinking. At his Web site, Reid describes himself as a “bestselling author and a leading expert on natural health and healing practices, chinese medicine and philosophy” and an author of “numerous books and magazine… Continue reading

If you haven’t noticed from reading the frequent posts in these pages, one of my favorite tea-related topics to write about is tea books of yesteryear. It’s a topic that wouldn’t have been nearly so easy to write about a decade or more ago when older, more obscure books were harder to access. Nowadays, with… Continue reading

If you’re reading this article, you probably noted the title and may have been wondering, as I did, what tsiology is and what it has to do with tea. Fair enough, but I can’t offer much in the way of enlightenment on that count. As far as I can tell, it’s a term that the… Continue reading