Since history began, tea has been a much-loved and sought-after beverage. Its story is told here in fascinating detail, from its early discovery in China to its adoption in the West and final worldwide acceptance. The East India Company was a vital catalyst on the British nation's love affair with tea, which has lasted to this day, but its influence was also felt in America where the Company's tea was tipped into Boston harbour at the infamous tea party. The East India Company Book of Tea illustrates lavishly the tea story, as well as offering advice on the different varieties and the best ways of brewing tea from all around the world. Add some wonderful recipes, some strange tales and many previously little-known facts, and the stage is set for the story of tea - 'water bewitched'!

The East India Company Book of Tea

Science & Math

WILD, Antony

Technology

Harpercollins

The world's most popular beverage has had a rocky ride to its present position of fame and fortune - alternately banned and celebrated, prescribed by physicians and proscribed by priests, the story of coffee is strewn with skullduggery, deception and downright theft. The East India Company Book of Coffee illustrates lavishly its colourful history, as well as providing useful tips on choosing the best coffees, and interesting recipes from all around the world. Full of fascinating anecdotes and little-known facts, this is an invaluable book for anyone who wants to know more about their favourite beans.

The East India Company Book of Coffee

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

This work takes the reader behind the scenes to relate the story and history of chocolate. It reveals where chocolate comes from, how it is produced, how it was used in the past, and how it is used today.

The East India Company Book of Chocolate

Desserts

A guide to spices and their uses features recipes, little-known facts, exotic tales, and a look at the history of the spice trade

The East India Company Book of Spices

Cooking by Ingredient

Established by Royal Charter in 1600, the East India Company was, and remains to this day, the largest and most powerful multinational business the world has ever seen. It controlled over half the world's trade and a quarter of its population. It singlehandedly ruled India, raised its own army and navy, minted its own currency, and traded with every corner of the globe. It also trafficked in opium, greed, and brutal oppression, sowing the seeds that would lead to its downfall -- and absorption by the British Crown."The East India Company" describes how "the Honourable Company" created its extraordinary trading empire by introducing an exotic cache of tea, silks, porcelain, cashmere, and spices to a luxury-starved England. It also explains how the company conducted its day-to-day business at home and in the East, through colorful figures such as Captain James Skinner and John Nicholson; how the opulent daily life of East India Company rulers amongst the ruled led to "the Mutiny"; and why India's first war of independence spelled an end not only to the company itself, but, eventually, to an entire empire.

The East India Company: trade and conquest from 1600

Business & Money

Economics

HarperCollins Illustrated

"Remains of the Raj" shows how, 50 years after independence, Britishness still permeates many aspects of life in India. It focuses on what there is still to be seen in the modern Indian subcontinent from the time of the East India Company and its successor, the British Raj.The book is illustrated with archive material and contemporary photographs showing what remains of the British rule in India. Histories and descriptions are given of not only the grand edifices of the trading and colonial era but the everyday legacy and ephemera of daily life. The subject matter ranges from the magnificient to the minute, showing in its full diversity the influence of the long era of the British in India.The book covers: an historical overview; trade - factories, forts, tea and opium; the armed forces - the Indian army, navy and air force and the Great Game; religion and rememberance - churches, graveyards, museums and heritage; and infrastructure - railways.

Remains of the Raj

Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world\n‘Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking’ Joanna Blythman 
It may seem like just a drink, but coffee's dark journey from the highlands of Ethiopia to the highstreets of every town in the country links alchemy and anthropology, poetry and politics, science and slavery. Plots have been hatched, blood spilled and governments toppled to keep your mug filled with fresh espresso.\nIn this thought-provoking exposé, Antony Wild, coffee trader and historian, explores coffee's dismal colonial past, its perilous corporate present, and the environmental destruction which could limit its future, revealing the shocking exploitation at the heart of the industry.

Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee

Biography & History

Fourth Estate

A European coffee trader traces the history of a leading global trade commodity. His bitter perspective encompasses coffee's role in the slave trade, revolutions, Napoleon's exile, the Starbucks phenomenon, and current global economics including the fair trade movement. An illustration shows coffee disrupting spiders' web- weaving more than marijuana. Given his occupation, it's surprising that Wild ignores research on coffee's positive health effects. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Coffee: A Dark History

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

“Masterful and exhaustive . . . eye-opening lessons in economics, ethics, culture and science, resulting in a comprehensive overview of a commodity that is second only to oil in its importance to world trade.” ―Worcester Evening News Coffee trader and historian Antony Wild delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world after oil―an industry that employs 100 million people throughout the world. From obscure beginnings in east Africa in the fifteenth century as a stimulant in religious devotion, coffee became an imperial commodity, produced by poor tropical countries and consumed by rich temperate ones. Through the centuries, the influence of coffee on the rise of capitalism and its institutions has been enormous. Revolutions were once hatched in coffeehouses, commercial alliances were forged, secret societies were formed, and politics and art were endlessly debated. Today, while coffee chains spread like wildfire, coffee-producing countries are in crisis: with prices at a historic low, they are plagued by unprecedented unemployment, abandoned farms, enforced migration, and massive social disruption. Bridging the gap between coffee’s dismal colonial past and its perilous corporate present, Coffee reveals the shocking exploitation that has always lurked at the heart of the industry.

Industries

W.W.Norton&Company

Afternoon tea is the quintessential English tradition that everyone loves to share. This delightful book provides all the classic recipes that you will need together with a history of the custom of afternoon tea.

The Perfect Afternoon Tea Book: Over 70 Tea-Time Treats

Hill, Simona

Lorenz Books

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The East India Company Book of Tea

The East India Company Book of Coffee

The East India Company Book of Chocolate

The East India Company Book of Spices

The East India Company: trade and conquest from 1600

Remains of the Raj

Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee

Coffee: A Dark History

Coffee: A Dark History

The Perfect Afternoon Tea Book: Over 70 Tea-Time Treats