Making Your Own Gourmet Tea Drinks: Black Teas, Green Teas, Scented Teas, Herb Teas, Iced Teas, and More!

by Mathew Tekulsky

Tea is becoming as popular as coffee. A newly found appreciation of fine tea has led to a proliferation of tearooms and tea shops from coast to coast. So Mathew Tekulsky has now done for tea lovers what his nationwide best-seller, Making Your Own Gourmet Coffee Drinks, has done for coffee drinkers -- provided an array of recipes that is sure to please any palate. In Making Your Own Gourmet Tea Drinks, he offers more than 100 heart-warming recipes that include such tasty delights as Raspberry Tea. Apricot Iced Tea, Strawberry Tea Shake, Lemon Iced Tea, Cinnamon-Cranberry Iced Tea, Rum-Cider Tea, Grand Marnier Tea, Cocoa-Mint Tea Shake, and Iced Creme de Menthe Tea. The introduction briefly describes the origin of tea, defines the various types of tea (black, green, scented, flavored, herb, and iced), and discusses the different ways of making tea, tea equipment, and methods of storing tea.

Now you can enjoy all of the best gourmet tea drinks right in the comfort of your own home.

Genres: Tea, Cookbooks, Nonfiction

95 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 1995

About the author

Mathew Tekulsky is an award-winning and best-selling author of novels, screenplays, and nonfiction. His novels include The Chestnut Tree; Saving Annie, a Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Winner in Adult Fiction and finalist in the American Book Fest Best Book Awards; and Bernie and the Hermit, a finalist in the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. His adapted screenplays have received awards from film festivals including the Paris Film Awards, the London International Film Festival, the Cinema New York City Film Festival, and the Toronto Film Awards. His short stories have appeared in a variety of literary magazines.

In nonfiction, he is the author of books including How to Create a Butterfly Garden, The Art of Hummingbird Gardening, Backyard Bird Photography, Galapagos Birds: A Photographic Voyage, Americana: A Photographic Journey, and Making Your Own Gourmet Coffee Drinks. He also wrote “The Birdman of Bel Air,” an online column for National Geographic chronicling his bird experiences through essays and photography. His bird photography has been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.

A native of Larchmont, New York, Mathew attended Mamaroneck High School before earning a BA in history with a minor in English from University of Rochester in 1975. During his Junior Year Abroad at the University of Birmingham, he wrote a thesis on Aldous Huxley. In his senior year at Rochester, he studied Southern literature with novelist Jesse Hill Ford. His work often explores memory, history, nature, and the emotional landscape of American life.

Reviews

[Nathan Scheer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got a lot out of this one (the wife mostly), thanks!

[Awjtf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of interesting recipes and facts about tea!

[Selena Pigoni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple recipes for a lot of different drinks made with tea, flavored tea, and blending teas (as in making up your own loose leaf blends). It has recipes to blend your own Chai tea (three different ones, in fact!).

The only downside is that most of the recipes require black or specific kinds of herbal teas, not so much green or oolong. Granted, you can substitute in other kinds of tea for these (black's just the easiest for newbies), and green will probably taste good with most of the fruit combos.

The recipes, as I said before, are really easy, practically idiot-proof. Even people new to tea could make these.

[E · Rating 5 out of 5]

Useless, 10-word review: Yum! Delicious, creative ideas. I'll need to buy a copy.