For the entertainer, the cookbook lover and the international armchair traveler. Reveals the culinary rapture and conviviality that make the teatime ceremony a world-wide, time-honored tradition.

From tea guru Sebastian Beckwith and New York Times bestsellers Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton comes the essential guide to exploring and enjoying the vast world of tea. Tea, the most popular beverage in the world after water, has brought nations to war, defined cultures, bankrupted coffers, and toppled kings. And yet in many ways this fragrantly comforting and storied brew remains elusive, even to its devotees. As down-to-earth yet stylishly refined as the drink itself, A Little Tea Book submerges readers into tea, exploring its varieties, subtleties, and pleasures right down to the process of selecting and brewing the perfect cup. From orange pekoe to pu-erh, tea expert Sebastian Beckwith provides surprising tips, fun facts, and flavorful recipes to launch dabblers and connoisseurs alike on a journey of taste and appreciation. Along with writer and fellow tea-enthusiast Caroline Paul, Beckwith walks us through the cultural and political history of the elixir that has touched every corner of the world. Featuring featuring charming, colorful charts, graphs, and illustrations by bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and Beckwith's sumptuous photographs, A Little Tea Book is a friendly, handsome, and illuminating primer with a dash of sass and sophistication. Cheers!

The authoritative guide to the etiquette of taking tea for business or pleasure.

In 1896, Kate Cranston, the pioneer of Glasgow tea rooms in the late nineteenth century, commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- who would become one of the Western world's most renowned designers -- to design her tea rooms, and over the next two decades he did so with dazzling inventiveness. (Mackintosh's wife, Margaret, herself an artist, also made important contributions to the interior designs.) A pair of perfectionists, Cranston and Mackintosh opened up a unique, avant-garde artistic world to thousands of ordinary people. Their tea rooms became internationally famous. Taking Tea with Mackintosh illustrates this exciting collaboration with black-and-white historical photographs of the tea rooms and color photographs of their surviving components. In addition, sixteen recipes for traditional tea room cakes, breads, and pastries are supplied, offering the best chance the reader will have to revisit these extraordinary places.

Leaving Morocco behind them, Julie and John explore more widely in the Middle East: from caviar markets in Azerbaijan; whirling Dervishes and the fair-ground foods of Turkey; Jordanian tea houses and the sweet markets of Lebanon. Like Made in Morocco, this is a book of exotic tastes and sights. Julie's selection of recipes evokes the flavours of some very old cuisines, using aromatic spices, strange fruits and grains, exotic pickles and preserves. Her signature style is evident throughout food with wonderful flavours produced with a minimum of effort. John's dramatic photography captures the colour and spirit of these ancient countries.

This delightful party planner combines the magic of "Alice in Wonderland" with the timeless charm of tea, showing readers how to create six of their own magical tea parties with "Alice" themes, and featuring recipes for a wide variety of scrumptious treats. Full-color illustrations & photos.

In 'The Art of Taking Tea' the author praises the style and spirit of tea by combining delicious recipes, evocative musings and exquisite photos. There is even an insider's view of how tea is enjoyed in New York, Boston, Paris and beyond.

While to us tea is an everyday commodity, in Austen's time it was relatively expensive, and to be able to offer it to visitors implied some degree of social status. This book examines the social customs of the time, and includes recipes.

The prestigious Maison Laduree, adored by lovers of French delicacies the world over, shares its sophisticated teatime recipes and menus, as well as tips on the art of taking tea the Laduree way. With mouthwatering photography and beautiful illustrations, the leaves of this chic gift book are steeped with teatime menus and over 100 recipes for savory treats and sweet delicacies fit for Marie Antoinette -- topped up with a potted history of tea, a guide to the finest tea varieties, and instructions on how to infuse your tea the Parisian way.

Where does tea come from? With DK's The Tea Book, learn where in the world tea is cultivated and how to drink each variety at its best, with steeping notes and step-by-step recipes. Visit tea plantations from India to Kenya, recreate a Japanese tea ceremony, discover the benefits of green tea, or learn how to make the increasingly popular Chai tea. Exploring the spectrum of herbal, plant, and fruit infusions, as well as tea leaves, this is a comprehensive guide for all tea lovers.