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Hot Drinks: Cider, Coffee, Tea, Hot Chocolate, Spiced Punch, and Spirits

Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Delicious! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Whether you're looking for a delicious coffee or chocolate drink, a variation on the usual teas, a spiced punch, or some creative uses for spirits, you'll find something in here to serve at your holiday parties. Every drink we tried from this book was wholly delicious, such as Winter Twilight, which includes pomegranate juice and Chambord. I wouldn't particularly recommend this book for folks who don't like alcohol, however, as many of the recipes, even those found outside of the obviously spirit-based chapter ("merry-making cocktails") include a fair amount of alcohol.

Other chapters include chocolates and coffees, teas tonics and tisanes, welcome cups and party punches, and winter warmers and sweet dreamers. Thankfully since this isn't a huge book it doesn't spend much space on tried-and-true recipes; instead it dives straight into some nifty and unusual temptations. One of my favorites was 'tres leches'---a concoction that includes banana, orange juice, the traditional three types of milk referred to in the title, and several other surprising ingredients. I was slightly dubious at the combination, but it was amazing! Another fantastic drink, called 'toasted caramel,' involves the sublime dulche de leche, as well as the wonderful combination of Frangelico and Amaretto.

The table of contents lists each drink by name, and the index allows you to search for drinks by ingredient. The book is small and attractive, definitely a contender if you're looking for a delicious little gift cookbook for someone. The photos are beautiful, the layout is clean and easy to use, and the recipes seem well-tested.

Editorial Review:

Nothing warms up frigid fingers and toes like a mug of spicy mulled cider or creamy hot chocolate. HOT DRINKS presents 50 recipes for mixed coffees, teas, punches, cocoas, ciders, and cocktails perfectly suited for cozying up by the fire or heating up holiday family get-togethers. Featuring the classics (Hot Buttered Rum, Hot Toddies) as well as new twists on old favorites (Candy Cane Mojito, Sassy Hot Root Beer Float, Snowflake Vanilla White Chocolate), this collection of cold-weather warmers is sure to chase away the winter chills.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coffee and Tea (Complete Idiot's Guide to)

Travis Arndorfer, Kristine Hansen

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

An Excellent Comprehensive Reference 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Ironically enough, I actually was a complete idiot about coffee before I read this book. But I had a burgeoning interest in the subject and I can now say that I'm quite well-versed in it. I was amazed at the complexity involved in getting coffee from the plant to your cup, and this guide does a great job of laying it all out, step by step. It also provides all the necessary tips required for successful home roasting, grinding and brewing. The sections on tea are also very informative and may well introduce you to a world you never knew existed. If you're looking for a detailed reference on the wide world of these brewed beverages, look no further. This book has everything you need and then some.

Editorial Review:

A freshly brewed introduction to the caffeine subculture.

For hot beverage novices and budding baristas, here is an essential introduction to the world of coffee and tea, from a basic history of each product, to advanced tips and tricks for blending, brewing, and using syrups and milk, to recipes from around the world.
• Includes information on different types of beans and teas, available brewing equipment, and little-known secrets to making fabulous coffee- and tea-based drinks
• Written by food and beverage writers who are experts in the field
• Contains the finest recipes from worldwide barista champions

The Twelve Teas® of Inspiration: Celebrations to Nourish the Soul

Emilie Barnes

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Participating in teatime is an act of connection, community, and pure inspiration. Bestselling author Emilie Barnes illuminates 12 themed teas that honor milestones, special people, and everyday moments—

Words to Live By

New Beginning

Role Model

Thankful Heart

A Thing of Beauty

Artist Susan Rios’ paintings transport readers to the place of possibility alongside each tea’s fresh ideas and delicious recipes. The party–giver needs only to add the fellowship of great friends, family, and neighbors and her own personal touch.

Green Tea

Nadine Taylor

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A source of information 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I use this book as a primary refernce tool in my life. THe information here is historical and informative. Green Tea is a life saving, life enhancing and life giving drink that goes un noticed buy many. This book shows both the value and need for this "Magic" elixer!

A small guide to green tea 4 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

This is a nice general book about green tea with some history, recipes and medical benefits of consuming it.

This book is not long-winded, but cover quite a lot of information.

A real jewel of a book! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I love this book too, and one major reason, is that it kind of goes back to the golden age of paperback books, when you could buy little paperback books on every kind of topic imaginable. Combine this with the fitness boom of the '70s and '80s when one could find books on such topics as yoga or running with relative availability, this book fits very much into that mode...and I like a good author and the author is very enthusiastic with her subject. Sure, there are good books nowadays with slick or rice paper and fantastic graphics but this book is surely topnotch reading and magnificent in it's simplicity.

Editorial Review:

In this completely accessible and understandable guide, readers learn how green tea acts as a stronger antioxidant than vitamin C or E and inhibits blood clots as effectively as aspirin. They discover how its wonderful health-giving properties guard against cancer, protect against heart disease, slow the aging process, and even help reduce weight, safely and effectively.

Espresso Coffee, Second Edition: The Science of Quality

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Caffeine Clout 2 out of 5 stars.
29 of 92 people found this review helpful.

I liked this book because it makes a good showing on my shelf. People at my house say "Akmed, you are a coffee chemist?" I say, "yes, everything coffee does for me this book can undo. Ever drank too much coffee and can't sleep? This book solves that problem! Sleep for days after reading this book! I did. And you can too." One of my friends borrowed the book just before she quit coffee and died of severe depression. I'm not saying she read the book, but carrying it around seem to have the same effect. I hope everyone with too much time and energy will read this book, as they too will suffer a lingering malaise.

Editorial Review:

Written by leading coffee technology specialists in consultation with some of the world's biggest coffee manufacturers, the second edition of the successful Espresso Coffee will once again comprehensively cover the current status of the chemistry and technology of espresso coffee. It comprehensively covers topics such as agronomy, green coffee processing, roasting/grinding, packaging, percolating and decaffeination techniques. It provides a comprehensive resource for those interested in the fundamental notions of coffee quality; with a point of reference given in the form of a detailed bibliography to provide direction to the wider literature.

Chapters Include:
* Quality of espresso coffee
* The plant
* The raw bean
* Roasting
* Grinding
* Packaging
* Percolation
* The cup
* Physiology

The Great Tea Rooms of Britain

Bruce Richardson

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Disappointing! 2 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

We are getting ready to open the tea room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and I assumed this book would be helpfull but its was not. Lots of recipes were not accurate, missing steps and ingridients, the photos are nice, but they do not match the recipes. Very disappointing!
Olga Cannon.

A way to take a vacation from your armchair 5 out of 5 stars.
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The author does a nice job of introducing us to some of the pretty places in Britain. The descriptions are good and the pictures pretty. I would like to see the complete menu in order to plan my visits. The complete address and phone number would be helpful. The book is a lovely one to inspire you.

Editorial Review:

Tea lovers off to the UK have carried Bruce Richardson's travel books since 1995. Join the noted tea authority as he takes you on another romantic journey to twenty-two of his favorite locations for afternoon tea in England, Scotland and Wales. Filled with 170 beautiful photographs, warm narrative and handy touring information, this updated and expanded 2008 edition contains 60 authentic British tea time recipes. Featured establishments include such long time favorites as The Ritz, The Dorchester, The Bridge Tea Rooms, The Pump Room, The Willow Tea Rooms and more.

Herbal Teas for Lifelong Health: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-220 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, a-220)

Kathleen Brown, Jeanine Pollak

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

All About Coffee

William H. Ukers

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

The Bible of all other coffee books 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 15 people found this review helpful.

The information contained in this book is perhaps the most complet and concise information on the subject. While it was written nearly 75 years ago there is no other work that is more complet. If I could rate it a 12 I would have. A must for any coffee profeciadnoda.

Editorial Review:

REPRINT. Special Description Note- This is not a print on demand edition. Care has been taken to enhance and improve the original text whenever possible. Martino Publishing follows the standards of traditional printing and quality is a primary concern. We distinguish ourselves from Print on Demand by our quality controls, paper quality and binding quality. Octavo. English xiv, 818 p. col. front., illus. (incl. ports., music) col. plates., diagrs. New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935. Second Edition. New Copy. The second and standard edition of this definitive work on the history and influence of coffee. Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. A still unsurpassed work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated, with color plates.

The Tea Drinker's Handbook

Christine Barbaste, Francois-xavier Delmas, Mathias Minet

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In a skinny-no-whip-mocha-latte world, The Tea Drinker's Handbook is a refreshing return to America's roots in tea-drinking. Though tea is one of the most-consumed beverages in the world, second only to water, it is far from mundane. For both the lifelong tea drinker and the recent convert, The Tea Drinker's Handbook is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in all things tea. The founders of Le Palais des Thés, a retail chain known for the high quality of its selection of teas, have traveled for over twenty years to plantations all over the world in search of the rarest teas, and the result is this handsome and enlightening book. This is the first guide written under the Le Palais des Thés brand. In addition to ten shops in France, there are stores in Brussels, Oslo, Tokyo, and Beverly Hills, and their products are sold at Bergdorf Goodman. In this impressive and comprehensive guide, we rediscover tea, its cultivation, and all of its richness and complexity. In addition to being an informative resource, this book is also a true tasting guide for tea lovers. The authors open our eyes (and introduce our palates) to tea-tasting, as they list the top fifty teas of the world--complete with tasting sheets--and include comments and advice for each. And with 200 illustrations, The Tea Drinker's Handbook informs and instructs with both fascinating text and alluring images.

200 illustrations in full-color

Chinese Art of Tea

John Blofeld

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Lao's review 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

Includes history, poems and treatises about tea, tea houses, ceremonies, brewing, cups and vessels, varieties, and the effect that tea has on the physical health and psyche. Everything you need to know about Chinese teas is contained in this book. A very welcome addition to anyone's culinary library!

mmmm ..... Pu-erh 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

Great in-depth overview of the varieties of tea and drinking vessels! You need this book.

makes me want to drink tea 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 8 people found this review helpful.

lovely book. a good introduction to tea, taoism, and silence

An absolute WEALTH of knowledge 5 out of 5 stars.
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This man, though not Chinese, truly knows his subject and loves it. It shows all through the book. its a masterpiece! a simply MUST HAVE for all admirers of tea or the Chinese culture/ppl/way. Perhaps in a way it is fitting that the author is not Chinese. It shows that even a barbarian [foreigner] can learn something so different when he has enough love and time and determination.