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chonky1.jpg I instantly remembered this thread while browsing craigslist. It was being described as a yixing, and I picked it up with a tray and cups, though clearly not a set. I neat little collectable; I can't quite puzzle out if it's supposed to be a fish, a dragon, or a ram. Four hole filter, t...

I realize Greywacke keeps a great blog with reviews of many of the titles listed in the opening post: https://artoftea.teatra.de/ (Oh shoot, hahah, yeah I do. I'm a slow reader so it only sees a couple updates a year.) Just updated with as many 2023 releases as I could find. I also re-shuffled a bo...

Seconding Andrew that sometimes just having any nice-feeling notebook is enough (and I'm a sucker for a nice notebook). I liked the idea of a tasting notebook, but you're then bound by the sections the book lays out, plus you're bound by how much space they gave you. Your notes could either be too l...

This has been a really interesting read so far, and an invaluable resource. Moning, Oonfa and Oopack were three that frustrated me to no end because they showed up in almost every blending manual and I got nowhere with the names. Sorry for picking the unwieldy ones! Another one that pops up fairly o...

Oof, looks like there's a few things I need to update in here. I just reviewed a book that's new enough to have not been mentioned, released in the last month or two, Geography of Chinese Tea, by Sergey Shevelev, the founder and owner of Moychay. It's pretty good. There's always room for improvement...

Update: More additions. Added to 2021 releases, and started 2022 releases. Broke out a 'Children's Books' section. Also working on breaking out a 'teaware' section, as well as add in the books people have suggested... Some new additions: Soei, R. A Beginner's Guide to the Zen Tea Ceremony: Developi...

OOF, I'm still here and updating, just in the background, lurking. mbanu Yeah, some of these get exceedingly difficult to classify/organize--there's either no author, or only an editor listed, or in a few cases, a compiler. And a lot of these books don't have ISBNs associated with them. Sometimes I ...

Now that Steepster's back up, those are probably the two best threads.

Yeah. I understand that a company's priority is never really going to be fostering information, unless it's for some gain. TeaChat existing unscathed is a feat in itself. This has been frustrating to watch.

Hey. I mostly lurked and watched this thread, planning to crosspost Chip's statement (although I optimistically decided to wait things out, and to postpone being banned on the spot myself). Adagio's ended up putting up a poll about doing exactly what they assured Steepster users they wouldn't do--pu...

I’m just about finished The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, a historical fiction novel with decent information about Puerh...but a great book imho even if not centered around tea. I searched for this here, wondering if it had been mentioned, perhaps in a thread about tea books, and I didn’t see anyth...

I swing back and forth between "well my sleep-schedule is already in shambles" and "but maybe I can fix it if I just stop drinking tea at 7pm". That bit of self-improvement is not going as well as hoped. I try and drink something I know won't affect me as much; plus for a while I was trying to buy r...

I can't say I'm surprised. They market a tea that is covered in actual gold :lol: https://twgtea.com/Products/Yellow-Gold-Tea-Buds They don't even sell "a" tea covered in gold. They sell *several*. https://twgtea.com/Products/Gold-Yin-Zhen https://twgtea.com/Products/Amour-de-The https://twgtea.com...

Thanks for the support; I've added a couple more China-specific English publications that were apparently written by the curator (Wang Jianrong) of, and specifically for, the China National Tea Museum (although I can't 100% confirm; just based on the synopsis I found with some of the books): Wang, J...

Extensive list, thank you for compiling. A Yixing addition; "Early teapots Encyclopedia II" by Dr Chi-Lin Lu Thanks, it makes me consider pulling out the other two-ish books on teaware and making a new section rather than grouping them under their country. The encyclopedia's translation was being p...

This is something I’ve been keeping for a while. I recently thought to compile/organize/post it online for other people. Not included: books focusing on tisanes, tea recipe books, books not in English (because I only speak the one language, I’m definitely not an authority on others). I figured most ...