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This comprehensive guide details how to grow and process real tea (including white, green, oolong, and black).
Make a fresh pot, sit down, and discover the joys of growing and processing your own tea at home. Parks and Walcott cover it all from growing tea plants and harvesting leaves, to the distinct processes that create each tea's signature flavors. You'll discover tea's ancient origins, learn about the single plant that produces white, green,...
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This book is a fascinating history of tea and the spreading of tea throughout the world.
Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea, is grown in tea gardens and estates around the world. A simple beverage served either hot or iced, tea has fascinated and driven us, calmed and awoken us, for well over two thousand years.
The most extensive and well-presented tea history available, Tea: The Drink that Changed the World tells...
Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea, is grown in tea gardens and estates around the world. A simple beverage served either hot or iced, tea has fascinated and driven us, calmed and awoken us, for well over two thousand years.
The most extensive and well-presented tea history available, Tea: The Drink that Changed the World tells...
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"More than just a warm and comforting drink, tea has medicinal properties that are widely underused in North America. Common herbs, spices, fruits, and barks have been scientifically proven to help relieve pain, menopause symptoms, high blood pressure, insomnia, stress, and digestive angst. When taken preventatively, certain herbs in tea can help fight off cancer cells, heart disease, and even Alzheimer's disease and fibromyalgia. By learning about...
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An introduction to the world's teas and their healing qualities!
A relaxing cup of tea is a soothing way to improve your health, lighten your mood, increase your metabolism, or boost your energy. Tea has so many health benefits, from preventing cardiovascular disease to burning calories, it's no wonder so many people are choosing this classic beverage over coffee and carbonated soft drinks. If you'd like to experience the benefits and healing properties...
5) Tea & cookies: enjoy the perfect cup of tea, with dozens of delectable recipes for teatime treats
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Celebrate the time-honored combination of beverage and dessert! Whether you are serving a large group of friends, or indulging in a personal treat, this book will guide you though the perfect pairings of tea and cookies.
6) A literary tea party: blends and treats for Alice, Bilbo, Dorothy, Jo, and book lovers everywhere
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A Literary-Inspired Cookbook for Voracious Readers at Teatime Tea and books: the perfect pairing. Fire up your literary fancies and nibble your way through delicate sweets and savories with A Literary Tea Party, which brings food from classic books to life with a teatime twist. Featuring fifty-five perfectly portioned recipes for an afternoon getaway, including custom homemade tea blends and beverages, you will have everything you need to plan an...
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"Tea is a plant with many beneficial qualities for one's health and spirit. In fact, the long life span of people in China has been associated with the population's regular intake of green tea. Healthier than coffee and with a positively stimulating or relaxing effect--according to the length of boiling time--the vitamins and flavonoids in this infusion are not only healthy but also help in fighting free radicals. Tea also promotes creativity, harmony,...
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Create your own collection of non-alcoholic, probiotic wonder drinks in your own kitchen! Kombucha is perhaps one of the most popular fermented probiotic health tonics on the market, promoting high levels of B Vitamins, antioxidants, and detoxifying properties. Doctors of both conventional and natural medicine agree that probiotics have positive effects on digestion, metabolism, immune system, and mental health. Fermented probiotic drinks help repopulate...
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Create your own handcrafted drinks and cocktails using local, fresh, or foraged ingredients. Tired of boring, artificial, too-sweet drinks? Go wild! It's time to embrace drinks featuring local, fresh, or foraged ingredients. It's easy with Wild Drinks & Cocktails. Using ingredients you can find in your own backyard, farm, or local market, you can create artisan drinks that will leave you feeling refreshed and even revitalized. Learn useful fermentation...
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For the coffee geek in all of us: the definitive guide to all the major coffee-making methods, and which beans, roast, and grind are best for each of them.
To make any old cup of coffee, you simply need a pot, heat, ground coffee, and water. But you're not just anyone. You are a coffee aficionado, a determined, fearless seeker of the best java. And this is the guide for you. How to Make Coffee provides an in-depth look at the art and science behind...
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Now in its latest revised edition, Kenneth Davids's comprehensive and entertaining Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying, remains an invaluable resource for anyone who truly enjoys a good cup of coffee. It features updated information and definitions, a history of coffee culture, tips on storing and brewing, and other essential advice designed to improve the coffee experience. Coffee lovers everywhere will welcome this lively, complete guide...
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This fresh new release is a beautiful, hip guide to the world of coffee brought to you by New York City's popular connoisseur coffee chain, Joe. Written from the point of view of owners (and siblings) Jonathan and Gabrielle Rubinstein, the reader is welcomed into the tight-knit international specialty coffee community of committed growers, buyers, roasters, entrepreneurs, baristas, and drinkers. Their mission: to source, purchase, roast, serve,
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"Whether you have a special occasion to celebrate or you simply want to spend time with family and friends, hosting a brunch is the perfect opportunity. With more than fifty delicious recipes and six fresh ideas for serving them with style, Brunch offers a variety of ways to enjoy this favorite midday meal." --Amazon.
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"With this book, you will not only learn how to brew a great cup of gourmet coffee at home, using a variety of techniques, you will also discover how to incorporate this coffee into many of the most delicious gourmet coffee drinks that are being served in the best specialty coffee shops around the country today"--P. 4 of cover.
15) The Book of Tea
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An elegant and intellectual work, The Book of Tea was written in 1906 by Kakuzo Okakura, a brilliant Japanese man with an early education in English. Through his intimate knowledge of Japanese aesthetics and ability to effectively communicate them to a Western audience, Okakura is able to discuss Teaism and its impact on Japanese culture, thought, and life in an informative and profound way. He develops this theory by explaining the history and universality...
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1. Why Home Roasting? -- Authenticity, Economy, Alchemy -- Liberating the Taste Genie: Chemistry and Drama of the Roast -- 2. From Spoon to Fluid Beds -- Roasting History -- A Visual History of Roasting Machines -- 3. From Cinnamon to Charcoal -- Roast styles -- Quick Reference Guide to Roast Styles -- 4. What to Roast -- Choosing green beans -- Coffee Geography: Some Fancy Coffees of the World -- 5. Getting Started -- Equipment, Methods, Issues...
17) The Wild Truth of Tea: Unraveling the Complex Tea Business, Keys to Health and Chinese Tea Culture
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This book is more than how to brew a cup of tea – it is a tea education you won't find anywhere else. Dive deep into the guts of the tea industry from the perspective of true insiders in the tea industry. Most tea drinkers never realize the depth of the story behind each cup. This book illuminates what even people who are in the tea business may not know. Packed with nitty gritty, real life stories and unearthing gems of knowledge about the tea...
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Este proyecto editorial fue una iniciativa en el año 2004 del Dr. Juan Luis Mejía Arango. Recién posesionado como rector de la Universidad EAFIT, invita a los profesores Juan Carlos López del grupo de Historia Empresarial y a mí, y luego de una amena charla, nos ayuda a trazar y orientar el trayecto del proceso de investigación, considerando como primera etapa la actividad minera. Con ella, nació la primera idea de la Antioquia industriosa,...
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Después del agua, el té es la bebida más consumida en el mundo. Este libro concede la importancia que merece a esta infusión y, de forma gráfica y amena, proporciona una visión global del producto, como planta y como elemento cultural. En él se ofrece el contexto histórico y geográfico del té, se describen sus propiedades y se explica cómo se obtienen las distintas variedades. Además, también se describen los útiles, los usos y los rituales...
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One of the world's most celebrated beverages, tea is as complex as it is delicious. This ebook is the perfect companionon a journey to discovering tea's tantalizing secrets. Filled to the brim with essential knowledge on a wide assortment of varieties from across the globe-from black and green to red and white teas-it also includes tasting notes and tips on selection and preparation. And for complementing that perfect cup, irresistible recipes for...
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