Hats off to Tea!: A Celebration Brimming with Fun and Friendship Book

This book reaches back into the deep history of China and the first tea drinkers and explores the spiritual, historical, economic, and social impact our love of tea has wrought across time and across continents. It's an amazing story, and one well worth reading. I was enchanted by parts of this book, and shocked by others (though by now I should no longer by shocked by any of the things one country or one people will do to another - it's not like our mistreatment is anything I haven't heard of before!), but it's also a book that describes a delicate art, an amazingly healthful and beneficial beverage, and a cultivation and trade that is slowly turning itself around. In short, this book reveals a rich and vibrant history and gives me reason to celebrate and have faith. I love tea. Now that I know more about how it came to be a beverage, I have come to cherish it and all that it takes to get it into my home.