Green Tea Book

[SUMMARY: The chapters on the history of tea, an introduction to its benefits and production process are great to read or to note useful extracts'very clear and straightforward, informative on all levels'however there also many pages with repeated or now outdated content.]

I greatly liked the idea of a book focused solely on tea (mostly green but there is content on others too) and that didn't change while reading the first chapter and skipping to the final one, but when it came to the in-between content this book by Nadine Taylor might not be the most efficient source of information.
There are quite a few pages dedicated to listings of tea-related products and brands (also distributed within the United States only) that, the book being two decades old, are now tremendously outdated.

The book also tends to go over recommendations or explanations on the benefits of green tea often enough that I felt I had read parts of it more than twice. It didn't help that sometimes the enthusiasm didn't sound very scientific, but either way the parts I find important from this book are the first and last chapters, where useful and interesting information is provided on the preparation process of tea and, more briefly, its history and the culture surrounding it (if Green Tea had focused more on that I would've finished it sooner, but its main purpose lies elsewhere).

Those are the parts that I found most informative and also enjoyable to read, and overall I'd come back to the book to consult specific terminology or to be reminded of the more general content, which remains very useful. Also for those who might want to apply the medicinal properties of plant ingredients together with green tea, there's a detailed list of them included.