A Great Book for the American Tea Drinker

DID YOU KNOW? These are just some of the fun facts in this book by Michael Harney, one of the Sons in the infamous tea company, Harney and Sons. You can't judge a tea by its name. Consider Orange Pekoe-Orange stands for the Dutch Royal House of Orange and once indicated tea of a quality suitable for its monarchs. Pekoe is a mispronunciation of the Chinese words bai hao. bai meaning White and hao meaning Tippy. Pekoe may have once meant tippy teas, but the ancient word has long since lost its original meaning.