About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Bubble tea, Sweet tea, Tea culture, Health effects of tea, Boston Tea Party, Kombucha, Iced tea, Tea Studies Index, Tea processing, Terroir, Masala chai, Taiwanese tea, Tea brick, Camellia sinensis, Theanine, Lahpet, Hong Kong-style milk tea, Tea house, Tasseography, Tea bag, Phenolic compounds in tea, Theaflavin, The Book of Tea, List of tea diseases, Tea leaf paradox, Thearubigin, Tea classics, List of tea companies, Tea egg, Canned tea, Butter tea, Teaware, Yuanyang, Theaflavin digallate, ISO 3103, Tea seed oil, Lipton Institute of Tea, List of countries by tea consumption per capita, Crush, Tear, Curl, Tea lady, Tea tasting, Tim Tam Slam, Thai tea, Board of Tea Appeals, Chifir', Jagertee, Teh tarik, Tea garden, Gamma-Glutamylmethylamide, Lei cha, Tenfu Tea College, Tea stove, Robert Bruce, Fannings, All in This Tea, Dust, Teh See, Teh halia, Kujiejun, Guwahati Tea Auction Centre, Mao feng, Tea chest. Excerpt: Tea is the agricultural product of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of various cultivars and sub-varieties of the Camellia sinensis plant, processed and cured using various methods. "Tea" also refers to the aromatic beverage prepared from the cured leaves by combination with hot or boiling water, and is the common name for the Camellia sinensis plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many enjoy. The term herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs containing no actual tea, such as rosehip tea or chamomile tea. Alternative terms for this are tisane or herbal infusion, both bearing an implied contrast with tea. This article is concerned exclusively with preparations and uses of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, the Minnan word for which is the etymological origin of the English word tea. Tea...
