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The Way to Tea: Your Adventure Guide to San Francisco Tea Culture

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Not just a traditional guide book, any lover of tea, or a reader of Okakura's The Book of Tea, would find this guide to tea indespensable. While for some it may lead to a year's worth of Bay Area teahouse exploration, for others it is a night table companion full of gorgeous photographs and insights into tea drinking. Truly, a wonderful gift for yourself or anyone who enjoys watching tea leaves unfurl in a cup.

Few photographers can match Jennifer's eye for photographing tea. Her guide to tea in San Francisco is as complete a snapshot as you will find for this city that embraces both European and Asian tea traditions. The Way of Tea is a delicious feast for the eyes!

This is an excellent book with wonderful photographs and extremely well written. After reading this book I definitely want to visit San Francisco and visit some of the tea houses. Anyone would miss a great opportunity to learn more about tea and tea houses and history of tea if they do not buy this book.

I received this book just in the nick of time. Yes, it is beautifully designed and written, but more importantly it helped me through a difficult time. Apparently this is one of the gifts of tea. It is comforting, healing, and a warm companion that can get you through all kinds of rough situations. It was a gift that has kept on giving.

I love this book. This is a great book if you are already a tea aficionado, or are just beginning to learn about tea (like me). You don't have to live in San Francisco to fully appreciate it. The Way to Tea also makes a great coffee table book and it is filled with beautiful imagery.

This book is a tour through the modern tea culture of San Francisco, which boasts more tea life than any other city in the country.

There are plenty of beautiful photos and the descriptions of the people involved in the tea rooms and stores are an introduction to family.

There's a little appendix in the back where Jennifer Leigh Sauer talks about different kinds of tea. She's true to Puerh here by mentioning a few kinds of it without relegating it to second-best among teas.

I recommend this book for anyone who wants to get close-up and personal with tea in America. It's like getting a backstage pass to your favorite show--better than front row.

If you are traveling to SF or live in the Bay Area and you enjoy tea like others enjoy coffee this is the book for you. Take a fun, different field trip to 2 or 3 diverse neighborhoods and explore them through the unique tea shops that this book covers. I have found the people in these ships to be warm and inviting and they all know and love the author-photographer, Jennifer Sauer. A great small coffee (ahem, tea!)table book.

Jennifer Leigh Sauer has created a masterwork of words and photography that transcends the local tea culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and brings tea culture to a larger audience. By focusing on the Bay Area, she brings the centuries old concept of tea culture to a larger American audience. Her personal adventure in mastering this subject has created more than a local guidebook. Ms. Sauer's loving attention to detail has produced a beautiful book.

The Way to Tea has lured me into exploring the diverse world of tea and savoring its pleasures. The book's captivating pictures and thoughtful text are steeped with the author's spirit of adventure and appreciation for the world hidden behind cups of tea. The book inspires an awakening of the senses and intellect --an alluring antidote to the world of stressful living and mindless consumption. The Way to Tea is a beautiful way to celebrate the New Year as a gift to oneself or a friend.

What a delightful and well thought out book for Tea House Lovers, The Way To Tea. think the photos are beautifully done and I love the way the book reads. It is a perfect size for living room tables and friends have already picked it up at bookstores as well.I was surprised at how many quality places there are to go in San Fran. A great book for visitors and locals alike! Have already given two as gifts... many thanks