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Informationen zum Autor Henrietta Lovell Klappentext Over the years I've fallen in love so many times, with so many teas. When I'm not visiting farmers and gardens, my travels take me to my customers, including some of the world's best restaurants ... My life has become consumed by the finding and blending and sharing of the most delicious things I can find to infuse. Rather aptly, it's got me into a fair amount of hot water along the way. A mature summer tea leaf is hard and shiny like an enamel lidded pill box or a glossy beetle's back, but the spring tea leaves are pea green and tender, some edged with pink and red. Breaking and chewing the soft stems is like plucking fresh grass stems in an English field, with an intensity of flavor a thousand-fold. -Henrietta Lovell, The Rare Tea Lady Vorwort * Winner of Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, Drink Book Award 2020 * Embark on an exotic globe-trotting journey to discover the pleasures of tea with Henrietta Lovell: the Rare Tea Lady herself. Zusammenfassung A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR* Winner of Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, Drink Book Award 2020 *Henrietta Lovell is best known as 'The Rare Tea Lady'. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Solway Firth, South-West Scotland 2: Fuding, Fujian, China 3: Claridge's Hotel, London 4: Guizhou, China 5: A Diversion: How English Breakfast Became the New Black6: London, England: Camden to Whitehall 7: Satemwa Estate, Malawi 8: West Hollywood, California, USA 9: Cederberg Mountains, South Africa 10: Kyoto, Japan 11: Hile, East Nepal 12: Taitung, Taiwan 13: South of Rome, Italy 14: A Diversion: The Story of Afternoon Tea 15: Tokyo, Japan 16: Tarrytown, New York State, USA 17: San Francisco and Sonoma County, California, USA 18: Meghalaya, India 19: The Wuyi Shan, China 20: Paris, France 21: Sikkim, India 22: Nordskot, Arctic Norway 23: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China 24: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 25: Shizuoka, Japan 26: Ambadandegama, Uva Highlands, Sri Lanka 27: Michoacán, Mexico 28: Cornwall, England 29: Tarragona, Spain 30: Glastonbury, Somerset, England 31: Your Bedroom 32: Fujian, China 33: Eskdalemuir, South-West Scotland 34: Revolution Postscript: Over the North Sea Making a Good Cup of Tea Teas I've Talked About...
