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Whether it's a delicate green tea or a bracing Assam black, a cup of tea is a complex brew of art and industry, tradition and revolution, East and West. In this sweeping tour through the world of tea, veteran tea traders Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss chronicle tea's influence across the globe and provide a complete reference for choosing, drinking, and enjoying this beverage. The Story of Tea begins with a journey along the tea trail, from the...
4) Tea ceremony
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c2005
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Using illustrations, provides step-by-step instructions on hosting a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
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2022.
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English
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Ning enters a cutthroat magical competition to find the kingdom's greatest master of the art of brewing tea, but political schemes and secrets make her goal of gaining access to royal physicians to cure her dying sister far more dangerous than she imagined.
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[2020].
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This cookbook and guide to the cultural phenomenon that is boba, or bubble tea -- featuring recipes and reflections from The Boba Guys tea shops. Andrew Chau and Bin Chen realized in 2011 that boba - the milk teas and fruit juices laced with chewy tapioca balls from Taiwan that were exploding in popularity in the States -- was still made from powders and mixes. No one in the U.S. was making boba with the careful attention it deserved, or using responsible,...
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Modern-day Japan. Robin Swann's life in Tokyo is grinding to a halt. She's stuck in a dead-end job testing antiquities for an auction house, but her true love is poetry, not pottery. Her stalled dissertation sits on her laptop, unopened in months, and she has no one to confide in but her goldfish. On the other side of town, Nori Okuda sells rice bowls and tea cups to Tokyo restaurants, as her family has done for generations. But with her grandmother...
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2014.
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Liversidge shows you how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill, to create your own tea cupboard. From growing your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea, she lays out when and how to harvest your plants; how to dry it to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year; how to make up fresh and dried teabags; and how to serve a...
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More than any other single event, the Boston Tea Party of 1773 has come to stand for the determination of American colonists to control their own destinies. From the arrival of ships full of controversial taxed tea in Boston Harbor through the explosive protest meetings at Old South Church to the defiant act of dumping hundreds of chests of fine tea into the harbor on December 16, Freedman captures this exciting story in vivid prose. In lush, intricately
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2017.
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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced...
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2015
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Drawing on lessons she's learned throughout her amazing and sometimes difficult life journey, the social entrepreneur and founder of Zhena's Gypsy Tea shares seventeen soulful lessons to help you overcome obstacles, clarify your purpose, and bring awareness to each moment of your life. An inspiring roadmap for discovering the secrets of happiness and success for yourself at any stage in life, Life By the Cup's message is that, no matter where you...
20) Tea party rules
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2013.
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English
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"A bossy little girl makes a bear cub follow all the rules at her tea party before he is allowed to eat any of the cookies"--
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