{"id":549,"date":"2009-11-09T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2009-11-09T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:29:00","slug":"tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, <i>Letters and Social Aims<\/i><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Svdy4ptOFQI\/AAAAAAAAFcQ\/5oKjqx5CQz0\/s1600-h\/Girls+tea+pics+may09+%285%29.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/Svdy4ptOFQI\/AAAAAAAAFcQ\/5oKjqx5CQz0\/s320\/Girls+tea+pics+may09+%285%29.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401912595647960322\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">I am looking for a book of tea.  Anyone have recommendations?  Something that is table book style and lovely to look at (hard cover) with plenty of information on all the types of teas and cultural information around them.  I took a look on amazon and the list of tea books was terrifying so I am hoping someone can <span>steer<\/span> me in the right direction!  Please let me know if you have a much loved tea book in mind!<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.  ~Author Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.  ~Jean-<span>Anthelme<\/span> <span>Brillat<\/span>&#8211;<span>Savarin<\/span>, <i>The Physiology of Taste<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\"><span>TTFN<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims I am looking for a book of tea. Anyone have recommendations? Something that is table book style and lovely to look at (hard cover) with plenty of information on all the types of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}