James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary

The newly completed and now definitive Tea Dictionary includes all principal kinds of tea grown in the world, with a timeline of tea history, maps, and striking photography, principally by Yoon Hee Kim.

With the collaboration of Devan Shah and Ravi Sutodiya, publishers, and Chen Zongmao, China’s foremost tea authority, James Norwood Pratt has demystified trade terminology for tea cultivation, manufacture, tasting, trading, marketing, and classification, with an abundance of botany, business, history, folklore, and “... almost all the gardens and place names we think worth listing.” It is the first work in English to include Chinese characters whenever possible and is intended to be an indispensable tool for tea lovers of every description.

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“No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness altering substance more benign,” says James Norwood Pratt, one of the world’s leading authorities on tea and tea lore. The original edition of this book, published a generation ago, is a classic that sparked a Tea Renaissance in America that is still growing today. No one is more knowledgeable or passionate than Norwood when it comes to tea, and his over thirty years of devoted exploration inform this greatly amplified and updated edition.

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What others have said about JNP’s New Tea Lover’s Treasury:

“… probably the best single book on tea available on the market. It is a slim volume that instructs both novice and connoisseur alike. Written in an entertaining, discussive style with enough common sense knowledge and practicality to be a beginner’s guide, it is filled with anecdotes and history enough to make a connoisseur proud. Norwood Pratt’s New Treasury is probably the only book on tea you need, if you want only one.” —Darrell Corti, A Tea Book for Your Library, in Corti Bros. Catalog (Winter 2001)

Norwood Pratt’s book about tea is written so deftly in its heady combination of learning and pure love, that its pages will cheer us long after what’s in the cup is cold and stale.” — M.F.K. Fisher, from her Introduction to the original edition.

“...as entertaining as it is informative and useful ... Who would have thought that the cup that cheers’ could have had such a wicked history?’ — Gerald Asher, Gourmet

“His book, The New Tea Lover’s Treasury, is like the Bible of Tea.” — Devan Shah, CEO of International Tea Importers

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