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bram posted an update 11 years, 1 month ago
Dummies international did not have tea on the list for the “whatever for dummies”-series. Sounds like a mistake to me. But this mistake gave a Dutch writer the permission to write “De kleine Thee voor Dummies” (the small tea for dummies). A generic tea book (like many others, but not many in Dutch) about the different tea types, countries, very short history, facts and myths, tasting, rituals, food-tea combo’s, perfect tea preparation etc. It is small but it seems to be a good addition to the Dutch tea book market, which lacks good tea books. I just bought it, so I have not read it yet, so I could be totally wrong about it. (link to Dutch site)
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A Digital Ocean of Tea
Is it any good?
Finally finished it. For a 101 it is good. There is a lot of information in it. I even learned something about pairing tea with food. At some places simplifying things caused some errors, but overall I think it has less errors than other 101’s (there still are). Unfortunately sometimes the tone is like talking to dummies (yes I know it is in the title) so a bit irritating to read. And in a chapter about myths and therein the section (even the last page of the text) about the effects of caffeine stating that green tea has less caffeine than black tea is the funniest and gravest error of all 🙂 A good error to close the 101 with.