Homegrown tea :

Title:

Homegrown tea : an illustrated guide to planting, harvesting, and blending teas and tisanes / Cassie Liversidge.

Personal Author:

Liversidge, Cassie,

Call Number:

635.7 L7852

ISBN:

9781250039415

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

xv, 270 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

Introduction -- Leaves -- Seeds -- Fruits -- Flowers -- Roots -- Further plant advice -- Further tea advice -- Quick plant reference chart.

Summary:

Liversidge shows you how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill, to create your own tea cupboard. From growing your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea, she lays out when and how to harvest your plants; how to dry it to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year; how to make up fresh and dried teabags; and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea.

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Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2014.

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Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry tea leaves to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year. As a guide to using tea to make you feel better, there are nutritional and medicinal benefits. Finally, there is an illustrated guide to show how to make up fresh and dried teabags and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea. It is sustainable way to look at a beverage, which is steeped in history and tradition.

Sample drinks include well-known plants such as rose hips, mint, sage, hibiscus, and lavender, as well as more obscure ones like chicory, angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena.

Author Notes

Cassie Liversidge was born in the UK and studied fine art at Plymouth University. She grew up on her parents' plant nursery, where her love of gardening began. Her debut book, Pasta Sauce! Crow Your Own Ingredients, came from a desire to share her passion for eating homegrown food and living in a more sustainable way. She lives and works in London with her husband and two sons, but spends time in New York each year. Visit her Web site at cassieliversidge.com.

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Tea is the new coffee. When such global shops as Starbucks drink up smaller tea concerns and when national drink me retailers appear in neighborhoods, then Londoner Liversidge (author of Pasta Sauce! Grow Your Own Ingredients, 2013) is right on trend. Her book acts as a reference tool primarily for those harvesting from seed or plant, although, obviously, anyone tea inclined will find it useful. She covers leaves, seeds, fruits, flowers, and roots 43, in total with such information as reaping medicinal and nutritional benefits, growing, harvesting, and preparing the brew. Although the format is somewhat repetitious, and the photographs are not the sharpest, her wisdom is demonstrated on every page. For instance, sidebars called Teabag Friends and Tips respectively identify complementary tea tastes and alternative uses (as well as occasional caveats, like don't confuse African violets with violets). Both the book's introduction and its finale are well filled with facts, ranging from notes about teapots and water to advice on plant gardening and tea drying.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2014 Booklist

Introduction	p. xi
Leaves
The Tea Plant	p. 3
"White Tea	p. 9
Green Tea	p. 12
Black Tea	p. 16
Anise Hyssop	p. 21
Bergamot	p. 27
Cardamom	p. 33
Hyssop	p. 39
Lemon Balm	p. 45
Lemongrass	p. 51
Lemon Verbena	p. 57
Manuka	p. 63
Mint: Ginger mint, Strawberry mint, Lavender mint, Spearmint, Black peppermint, and Garden Mint	p. 69
Mountain Pepper	p. 75
New Jersey Tea	p. 79
Raspberry	p. 83
Rosemary	p. 89
Sage: Tangerine Sage and Pineapple Sage	p. 93
Scented Pelargonium/Scented Geranium	p. 97
Stevia	p. 103
Sweet Tea Vine	p. 107
Thyme: Lemon Curd, Variegated Lemon, and Orange	p. 113
Tulsi/Holy Basil	p. 117
Seeds
Cilantro/Coriander	p. 123
Fennel	p. 129
Fenugreek	p. 133
Fruits
Blueberry	p. 141
Lemon	p. 147
Myrtle	p. 153
Rose hip	p. 159
Strawberry	p. 165
Flowers
Calendula	p. 173
Chamomile: Roman Chamomile and German Chamomile	p. 179
Honeysuckle	p. 185
Jasmine	p. 189
Lavender	p. 195
Rose	p. 201
Saffron	p. 205
Violet	p. 211
Roots
Angelica	p. 219
Chicory	p. 225
Echinacea	p. 231
Ginger	p. 237
Licorice	p. 243
Further Plant Advice	p. 249
Further Tea Advice	p. 259
Quick Plant Reference Chart	p. 263
Index of Plants	p. 265
Recommended Sources	p. 269
Acknowledgments	p. 271

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