Thanks, folks, for the recommendations. I'll track down the publishers
and buying information. Give me around two weeks for a full annotated
biblio -- and keep the references coming! I'm keeping away from fluff
books -- the oh how quaint school of tea-ism. I'm particularly
interested in finding books about the industry itself. So many changes
have occurred that are of substantial impact on the future of great
tea -- the drinks multinationals owning the elite English brands --
Twinings, Jackson's, etc., -- the labor and social issues in Africa
and India, the new generation of management in places like Ambootia,
the impacts of Fair Trade, tea technology/research/production
improvements, etc., etc. And, of course, good economic and historical
analysis.

Does it make sense to add also a list of periodicals and reliable,
high quality blogs/newsletters?

Again, thanks,
peter


On May 29, 5:03 am, corax > wrote:
> > You should also check recent posts on the Cha Dao tea blog
> > (http://chadao.blogspot.com/), which has been reviewing tea books - some
> > new, some old - over the past month or two.
>
> and will continue to do so, in the coming months [and i hope years].
> thanks for reading us! you should also have a look at bill lengeman's
> TEA GUY SPEAKS [http://www.teaguyspeaks.com/] -- he is doing some good
> book reviews over there as well.
>
> not everyone seems to know that blogs like this are searchable --
> there's usually a box somewhere toward the top where you can type in
> your search parameters and then click 'search blog'; this way you can
> find reviews [or whatever you like] even from months or years back.
>
> corax