"If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty"
The author traces this drink (whose existence is intertwined with the history of humanity) from tea schools, gardens and ceremonies in ancient China, Korea and Japan, to the porcelaine industry, tea as medication, tea trade, contraband and opium wars in India, China and Ceylon, to tea rituals in the UK and the US, to Kenya being today the world's largest tea exporter.