Addressed to a wide readership, the book covers the history, production, properties, and methods of consuming tea. Particular attention is given to the modern classification of teas—types, varieties, industrial and commercial grades. Data are provided on tea’s chemical and vitamin composition, as well as its nutritional value. The book answers questions such as how to brew tea correctly, in which cases to use different varieties, what indicators determine tea quality, what dishes to choose for it, how to store tea properly, and what well-known ways exist to prepare tea beverages.
Contents:
- Instead of an introduction
- Origin and meaning of the word “tea”
- Tea as a plant. Native lands of tea and the tea genus
- How a tea bush grows
- Geographical distribution of the tea plant
- Tea cultivation in our country
- What’s new in the tea business
- Dry, or ready, tea. A technological revolution that has existed for centuries
- Types, varieties, and grades of tea
- Composition and properties of tea. Chemical composition
- Tea vitamins
- Tea and human health
- Tea as a drink. “Tea” and “coffee” zones
- Everyone drinks tea; only a few know how to
- Brewing tea. The brewing secret
- On tea “condition” and its preservation
- Water for tea
- Tea utensils
- Brewing order
- Brewing time
- Brewing norms
- Main quality indicators of tea
- National methods of preparing tea drinks
- What and how to drink tea with
- Beverages made on the basis of tea
- Tea and related Russian customs and traditions
- Using tea not as a drink
- Who supplies the world with tea and who drinks it