From the renowned Shizuoka Prefecture Tea-growing district of Japan. World known instant greentea with all the natural attributes to support good health

The Japanese custom of drinking green tea came from China in about 800AD. The use of tea started when Buddhist monks, who had gone to China for study, returned to Japan bringing tea with them as a medicinal beverage. This beautiful book is a celebration of green tea drinking, exploring its beneficial effects and explaining how to store it, prepare it and use it to enhance your health. As the author explains, it is only green tea which has curative effects. When tea is processed to make black tea, most of these properties are lost, the active ingredients are destroyed or altered and black tea is reduced to just a normal beverage. When you read this lovely book, which is illustrated with gorgeous colour photographs and includes some interesting recipes, you are bound to catch the author's enthusiasm for a drink which deserves far more popularity in the West.