This pocket-sized guide offers concise, authoritative advice on understanding, buying, and enjoying the six classes of tea, with identification and location photography throughout for casual tea drinkers and tea connoisseurs alike. Did you know that tea is the most widely consumed beverage on the planet after water? Or that all of the world's tea originates from only three varieties of a single plant? While a cup of tea may be a simple pleasure for most of us, there are a dizzying number of tastes from which to choose. And every tea, whether a delicately sweet green tea from Japan or a bracing, brisk Darjeeling black, tells a story in the cup about the land that nurtured it and the tea-making skills that transformed it.In this authoritative guide, veteran tea professionals Mary Lou and Robert J.