This book helps to experience the world's finest tea. The Tea Book guides you through the best ways to choose, prepare and taste the many different varieties of tea available around the world, with everything you need to know to bring the fragrance and allure of the tea shop into your home. The essential companion for all tea aficionados, this detailed tea book features over one hundred international tea recipes, including chai tea, matcha, the increasingly popular bubble tea, and herbal tisanes such as Yerba Mate. Tasting notes help you to identify key characteristics, so that you can tell your green tea from your pu'er. With information on growing and harvest seasons, and maps of the most important tea-producing regions. This practical, fully illustrated guide is perfect for tea lovers.

The first title in a new gift series. It contains all the delectable delights of the tea table - scones, finer sandwiches, pastries, little cakes, big cakes, slices, biscuits - as well as hints and tips on making a pot of tea and setting the table.

Whether it's a summer tea party in the garden or a cosy gathering in front of a fire, afternoon tea is a treat any time of the year and the perfect way to celebrate a special occasion. Choose from an elegant Classic English Tea with finger sandwiches and Lemon Drizzle Cake, a Fireside Tea with Toasted Teacakes and Sticky Marzipan and Cherry Loaf, or an indulgent Champagne Tea with Smoked Salmon Crostini and Strawberries and Cream. Irresistibly girlie get-togethers include a Bridal Shower, a Sweet Sixteen Party and a Baby Shower. The men are invited, too!