The Book of Green Tea

by Diana Rosen

Everything you ever wanted to know about green tea! This fun and informative book explains every aspect of green tea: where it grows, how it's processed, its history and lore, how to drink and cook with it, and how to use it for beauty and health purposes.

Genres: Cooking, Tea, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Food

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Experience Therapy in a Cup

From that table, you can see the theme of the book.

To add to this the back cover mentions: How to blend, brew, and appreciate more than 120 varieties of green tea. Up-to-date information on the health benefits of drinking green tea. Recipes for cooking green tea and making green tea body care products. Rich green tea history, poetry, lore, and tradition from around the world the book has pictures along with descriptions of green teas that look almost identical but are different.

There are pictures of tea paraphernalia and locations of tea origins. You see tea bags tea glasses and even the chemical formula for tea. After you get past that there are many practical recipes involving green tea; any one of which makes is worth the price of the book.

[Nathan Scheer · Rating 3 out of 5]

flipped through it fairly quickly, it's quick and straight forward, for those who don't know much it's a good start for sure!

[Mike Ford · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had a lot of good information about different teas and their sources. I learned a lot about how teas were processed and various histories about tea. However, all of the descriptions about the drink itself seemed to run together with few exceptions. There was an overuse of unhelpful descriptive words (such as "lovely" or "yellow green liquor") that didn't make any tea really stand out. I also wasn't really that interested in the beauty or cooking sessions, but there is a lot of information there for those that are.

[Serge Pierro · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fairly comprehensive book on the subject of Green Tea. It covers a wide range of topics along with monotone (green, of course) photographs throughout.