Quickly now . . . who’s the world’s biggest producer of tea? Where is the tea known as the champagne of teas grown? How do you say “tea” in French? If you answered India, The Himalayas, and thé respectively, you must be a tea lover. No one else but a sipper, sniffer, and connoisseur of the world’s loveliest liquid (water, eat your heart out) could possibly have known all these stimulating facts.

Now comes the treat that tea lovers have been waiting for more patiently than a serving of hot oolong: Chicken Soup for the Tea Lover’s Soul, a heart-warming, invigorating collection of stories about all the aspects of the wonderful world of tea.