The Tea Drinker's Handbook
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Written by Francois-Xavier Delmas, Mathias Minet, & Christine Barbaste
This is a great book for learning about tea, its production, and brewing methods, filled with relevant photographs and illustrations. This book includes 3 main sections:
--What is tea? (the tea bush, the ecology and cultivation of tea, etc.)
--Tasting (equipment and techniques, physiology of taste, and expressing aromas and flavors)
--The world's 50 best teas (history of major tea regions, their teas and profiles of 50 teas from China, Taiwan, Japan, Sri Lanka, India, & Napal)