Time for Tea: A Book of Days - Hardcover

In this follow-up to her In the Victorian Kitchen, the author has compiled a series of facts and images about tea drinking. Also included are legends from China, Japan and India on the discovery of tea and the rituals and ceremonies revolving around tea-time in the East.

In her follow-up to In the Victorian Kitchen, Jane Pettigrew presents a book of days full of information and images of an ever-popular pastime--tea-drinking. Whether at a Japanese tea ceremony, in a Bedouin tent, or at an afternoon tea table, the taking of tea is both fascinating ritual and delightful refreshment. Pettigrew includes the development of bone china, and other significant events. 50 full color illustrations.