Book: The Chinese Art of Tea This has been considered a favourite and a recommended read of many English-speaking tea-drinkers for many years, which meant it was low on my own priority Continue reading

Book: Urasenke Chado Textbook This was intended to be the last post of 2024, but I suppose it’ll just have to be the first post of this year (four months in). This copy was leant to me by Continue reading

Book: The Japanese Tea Ceremony Often, small books like this aren’t really worth reviewing. At least not in terms of their informational merit and use as reference material. I picked up Continue reading

2024 Tea Festivals It’s been a busy­ couple of weeks. I attended a friend’s chamei chakai, followed back to back by three Tea Festivals—Tea Gorgeous Equinox, the Northw Continue reading

Book: Green Gold: The Political Economy of China's Post-1949 Tea IndustryI don’t normally have to include the full subtitle of a book, but as I’ve got two books, by different authors, both titled ‘Green Gold’ (and I fully intend to Continue reading

Book: The Teahouse This book deals with a very specific topic, that of teahouse culture in Chengdu, Sichuan from the 1900s to 1950, so it’s unlikely to appeal to a broader tea e Continue reading

Book: Darjeeling: A History of the World's Greatest Tea Koehler’s descriptions paint a very visual narrative; having read several more technical, dry manufacturing guides on Sri Lankan and Indian tea processing, Continue reading

2023 In Review So, unfortunately the Vancouver Tea Festival was cancelled in 2022, and didn’t resurface for 2023 either. It hasn’t had a proper event since 2020, but I’ve Continue reading

Book: Tea and Tea Dealing Unsurprisingly, I picked this book out at the library for its blending section. I like reading first-hand, antiqued accounts of what goes into blends, and Continue reading

Book: Tea Life, Tea Mind Having had this book sitting on my shelf for quite a while now, I kept passing it over for newer, more exciting acquisitions. I finally pulled it out to Continue reading

Book: Tasting Qualities This book has been on my list for a while, especially as Besky has another work out (“The Darjeeling Distinction”); but it wasn’t something I was going out of Continue reading

I’ll usually swing back around to this blog with a pretty dire opinion of my activity, but if I can manage four posts a year (in both 2021 and 2020!), then I’m pretty happy with myself. (Even if I did read months […]

This is part of a series of “Philosophy Of” books. I had trouble finding much on the ‘series’, but it looks like each (or most) was written by a different blogger or other influencer/social media presence. I […]

I thought this was a handsome little book, and was immediately drawn to it in Chapters when it released. Flipping through it, I thought the illustrations were unique, I thought the Table of Contents was very […]

This is an oldy but a goody, first published in 2003, and an easy, affordable buy at most bookstores back in the day (I think I paid $5 for this off of the clearance pile at Chapter’s).

Moxham has written a few […]

I look forward to new releases, even if the sad reality is I only manage to read a couple of Tea Books a year–and usually half a decade after they’ve been published. But that doesn’t mean I can’t share what I’m […]