Tea

[See alsoChinese Food; Coffee; Herbs; Japanese American Food; Prohibition; Spices.]

Bibliography

1. Harland, Marion. Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea. Armstrong, New York: Scribner, 1875.
2. Hooker, Richard J. Food and Drink in America: A History. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1981. Detailed account of what Americans ate and drank in all parts of the country from 1800 until the mid-twentieth century.
3. Roth, Rodris. “Tea-Drinking in Eighteenth-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage.” In Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1961. Separately printed booklet. Reconstruction of tea drinking habits and material culture of tea based on historical documents, travelers’ accounts, and contemporary paintings.
4. Saunders, William. “An Experiment in Tea Culture Report on the Tea Gardens of Dr. C. U. Shepard, Pinehurst, S.C.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1897. Ten-page booklet reporting on the attempt to grow tea in the United States.
5. Schapira, Joel, David Schapira, and Karl Schapira. The Book of Coffee and Tea, 2d rev. ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Contains information on tea history and on herbal teas.
6. Tea Bureau. The Cup That Cheers, A Handbook on Tea. New York: Tea Bureau, n.d. Forty-page booklet, published about 1948, giving a brief history of tea and information on postwar American consumption habits.
7. Ukers, William H. All about Tea. New York: Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935. The major source for information on tea in American and world history. Two volumes. Second volume contains an extensive bibliography on the history of tea production, marketing, and consumption.
8. Ukers, William H. The Romance of Tea: An Outline History of Tea and Tea-Drinking through Sixteen Hundred Years. New York: Knopf, 1936. A condensed version of his two-volume work.
9. Waugh, Alec. The Lipton Story. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950.
10. Whitaker, Jan. Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn: A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002. Describes the development and varieties of tea rooms in the early twentieth century.
11. Williams, Susan. Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Contains sample tea menus and information on tea etiquette and wares.