A tea reader : living life one cup at a time : an anthology of readings for tea lovers old and new / [compiled by] Katrina Avila Munichiello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munichiello, Katrina Avila.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tea--Miscellanea.

Tea.

Tea--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Tea Reader contains a selection of stories that cover the spectrum of life. This anthology shares the ways that tea has changed lives through personal, intimate stories. Read of deep family moments, conquered heartbreak, and peace found in the face of loss. A Tea Reader includes stories from all types of tea people: people brought up it the tea tradition, those newly discovering it, classic writings from long-ago tea lovers and those making tea a career. Together these tales create a new image of a tea drinker. They show that tea is not simply something you drink, but it a

Contents:

DEDICATION; Contents; INTRODUCTION | Falling in Love with Tea; FIRST STEEP | TEA REVERIES; Reverie; The Spirit of Tea; I Don't Drink Tea; The Spectator on Tea; A Poem in Praise of Tea; Bi Luo Chun; Seduced by a Leaf; Song of Tea or Writing Thanks to Imperial Grand Master of Remonstrance Meng for Sending New Tea; Ode on Tea; Tea to Last Lifetimes; SECOND STEEP | TEA CONNECTIONS; Connections; Afternoon Tea under the African Sun; The Mistri-Sahib; Five O'Clock Tea; Easy on the Ice; A Tea Cup of Friends; After Anna's Marriage; Midnight Tea; After Twenty-Two Years; Three Cups of Tea for Peace

A Chat over a Cup of TeaA Cup of Comfort; THIRD STEEP | TEA RITUALS; Ceremony and Tradition; Saké and Tea; Immersion; After the Walk; In a Teahouse with O-Toyo; A Valuable Moment of Life; Tea at 77 Guthrie Avenue; The English Tea; FOURTH STEEP | TEA CAREERS; Life Immersed in Tea; The Tea Effect; Unfurled; Comedy at the Customs with a Barrel of Water and Other Stories; There's Nothing Like the First Time; Tea Journey; Tea: Its Stirring Story; Growing Tea in Paradise; Ballad of the Tea Picker; Starting In Pursuit of Tea; Around the World with a Cup of Tea; FIFTH STEEP | TEA TRAVELS; Wanderlust

Tales from All In This Tea: Part OneTales from All In This Tea: Part Two; Visit to the Ningpo Green Tea District; The Tokaido; Tea Pilgrimage; Sipping and Tripping through Asia; The Tea Gardens of Shanghai; In The Footsteps Of Choŭi; The Tea Lands of Sri Lanka and India; Drinking Tea in a Back Room in China; A Thousand Cups of Tea; Miyanoshita; Memorandum of an Excursion to the Tea Hills; The Invisible Companionship of Tea; Tea in Tibet; Credits; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the Writers and Artists; About the Author con't

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4629-0021-6

OCLC:

811490386