This review is long overdue but I cannot miss reviewing a book about tea because… well it combines two of my favourite things. While I have read a few books on the history of tea and Britain, Putting the Tea in Britain is unique because it focuses on the contributions of the Scots. Starting with… Read More Tea Book Review: Putting the Tea in Britain by Les Wilson
It has been a while since I dug into a tea-related book, so when I saw this in the library’s online shelves, I thought it was too interesting to pass over! As it happens, the book is a little dry but no matter, the subject matter of the history of Japanese green tea in America… Read More Tea Book Review: Green With Milk And Sugar by Robert Hellyer
Hi friends! This is a post that I’ve been wanting to write for quite a while, and even though I don’t think I’ll ever have it done to the level I want (there’s just so much information that I can’t find with my limited resources), this is what I can best do at the moment.… Read More UniversiTEA: Milk Tea & Colonialism in Asia
I got this (and a few tea samples) as part of The Tea Crane Kickstarter and was super excited to dive into it! For context, I read this after finishing the third report for the Japanese Tea Instructor course, so I was already in the frame of mind where I wanted to learn more about… Read More Tea Book Review: The Story of Japanese Tea by Tyas Sosen
I am a simple person. I see a book about tea, I read the book about tea. Even if it’s so academic I feel like giving up. When I started Tea War, I was quite happy to find mentions of Wu Juenong, whose book An Illustrated Modern Reader of The Classic of Tea I read… Read More Tea Book Review: Tea War by Andrew B. Liu
Good news: I thought I procrastinated on this for a year, but I only took half a year to read this! Honestly, it should have taken much less time, given that the subject matter is lighter than my other Japanese books, but I pretty much just left the book alone until quarantine, where I finished… Read More Reading in Japanese: The History of England’s Teacups by Cha Tea (英国ティーカップの歴史)
I’m always happy to read books about tea, and finding free books about tea makes me even happier. A Bowl for a Coin by William Wayne Farris is a commodity history of tea in Japan, an angle of Japanese tea history that I’ve not really seen outside my Japanese tea instructor textbook (and even then,… Read More Tea Book Review: A Bowl for a Coin by William Wayne Farris
You might have heard of modern day tea competitions like the Global Tea Championships, Australian Tea Masters, or perhaps Great Taste Awards (okay that may be stretching it), where either teas or tea professionals are judged. But do you know that tea competitions have a very long history? I’ve been reading about the competitions in… Read More UniversiTEA: The History of Tea Competitions
I’d wager that almost everyone has heard (and maybe tried) of milk tea. You may even be in the habit of adding a splash of milk and a spoonful of sugar in your tea. But how did these habits come about, given that tea in China is drunk straight? In The Tale of Tea, George… Read More UniversiTEA: Why do we drink tea with milk and sugar?
I’m done with the longest book on tea that I have ever read! The Tale of Tea by George van Driem is a whopping 864 pages and chock-full of information. To commemorate reading this book, I filmed my first ever video review (note: I made a mistake and said that Lu Yu belonged to the… Read More Tea Book Review: The Tale of Tea by George van Driem