01.31.07
Cool tea blog and book
Pointed out by reader DF, the blog T Ching looks like a very good blog about tea. The Younger Daughter is an avid tea drinker and will enjoy this.
One of the blog’s contributors is James Norwood Pratt, who has a regular post “Tuesday’s [sic] with Norwood.”
James Norwood Pratt published his first book on tea in 1982 and is widely acknowledged as an instigator and prophet of America’s present tea renaissance. With numerous columns, articles and interviews in overseas tea periodicals and books which have been translated into French, German, Czech and Chinese, he is perhaps the world’s most widely read author on the subject today. He was made Honorary Director of America’s first traditional Chinese tea house, was instrumental in creating APTI (precursor of the current Specialty Tea Institute), has been editor-in-chief of two tea magazines and leads tea tours to China and India. In 2005 he was chosen International Juror in India’s first-ever tea competition. His entertaining talks and tea classes reach growing audiences each year and James Norwood Pratt’s “New Tea Lover’s Treasury”, his now classic “bible of tea”, remains the most comprehensive compendium on tea in English. Besides his “International Tea Dictionary” for the tea trade, his works in progress include “All About Black Tea: For those who’ve given tea a thought but not a try.” T Ching will preview selected excerpts.
Some of his books: The Tea Lover’s Treasury; The New Tea Lover’s Treasury; The Wine Bibber’s Bible.
