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Talking about Books about Tea

Hi friends! Since I have been challenging myself with baking and embroidery, I decide to try myself with filming a video as well! I was challenged to do a video during the 15 Minute Magic and it was honestly the hardest task out of three months of tasks. So I decided that I need to try doing another video to get over my fear of filming videos/having my voice recorded/having to look at my face.

So I told my brother (it’s important to have accountability partners) and he offered to film me. My sister chipped in too and when we got a quiet moment, we filmed a video!

One video does not magically stop you from hating how you look and sound (when I saw the thumbnail I wanted to delete everything) but I did my best to edit it and you can watch it here:

Books Mentioned in This Video

Tales of the Tea Trade by Michelle and Rob Comins (Review to come!)

The Tale of Tea by George van Driem (also review to come!)

Infused by Henrietta Lovell (review here)

A Thirst for Empire by Erika Rappaport (review here)

Empire of Tea by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger (review here)

Three Basic Teas and How to Enjoy Them by Virginia Utermohlen Lovelace, MD (review here)

Taking Tea by Andrea Israel

The Book of Afternoon Tea

A Social History of Tea by Jane Pettigrew and Bruce Richardson – Full review here, but if I reread all three of these books this month, I may do a comparison post!

Tea in China by James A. Benn – I mentioned that this was about Song but a lot of the book is about tea in the Tang dynasty too! Full review here

英国ティーカップの歴史 – The History of English Teacups. Still reading this, review to come!

世界のお茶専門店ルピシア お茶を楽しむ – The world’s speciality tea shop Lupicia: Enjoying Tea

和食検定 – This was my Washoku Kentei textbook, for the introductory exam I took back in 2015 (has it been five years??). You can read more about the exam here.

紅茶バイブル – The Black Tea Bible, full review here

日本茶の全てがわかる本 – The book to understand everything about Japanese tea. This is the textbook for the introductory test on Japanese tea and I guess if I managed to pass my Washoku Kentei introductory test, I should be able to pass this too? I should stop procrastinating about this too.

More to come?

While I’m not pleased with how I look and more importantly, how inarticulate I was in the video, I actually feel more motivated to film more videos because of this? I’d like to become comfortable with hearing myself speak and to be able to speak about something that I love on the spot!

But I’m also in lockdown with 6 other people in the same house so I don’t know when my next opportunity for a video will come. It could be soon, it could be never. I guess we’ll see?

2 thoughts on “Talking about Books about Tea

  1. Congratulations on this big step!!! It was fun to “meet” you through sight and sound, even though as a follower we have already had a meeting of the minds. And I’m sorry you hate the way you look & sound, but I think you are adorable. (Hope it’s OK to say that.)

    When I saw the beginning of your post, I was immediately reminded of an indie author who I once heard give a talk about platform. He said that as an Introvert, he expected to hate making YouTube videos, but it turns out he loves it because he can edit them and come across the way he wants to. 😉 I hope, if you continue, you grow to love it as well.

    I cannot believe how much there is to learn about tea! If aliens were studying Earth culture, this would have to be an entire course. Right next to the course on alcoholic beverages.

    1. Thank you! I think the meeting of minds part is the most important!

      I hope that I get more comfortable with it too! Filming turned out to be okay once I started talking about the books but editing was a pain (hence the very simple edits).

      I’ve heard that in Taiwan, there are universities who focus on tea as a major! So much to learn about the stuff!

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