{"id":1379,"date":"2011-03-22T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:35:45","slug":"1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/03\/22\/1935\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 75 &#8211; 1935: All About Tea by William H. Ukers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: New York, 1935<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/03\/22\/1935\/1935-endpapers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1380 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-endpapers-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-endpapers-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-endpapers-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-endpapers-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-endpapers-1536x1140.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-endpapers-2048x1520.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-endpapers-624x463.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1901, 27-year-old William H. Ukers worked as an editor for <em>The Spice Mill<\/em>, the in-house magazine of the Jabez Burns coffee company. \u00a0Taking note of a growing trend, he suggested to his boss that the magazine expand to become a trade journal. \u00a0The boss dismissed the idea, Ukers summarily quit, and the rest is coffee and tea history \u2013 literally.<\/p>\n<p>As legend has it, Ukers started <em>The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal<\/em> that very day. \u00a0He would devote his entire career to the journal and its publishing imprint, which fused up-to-date reportage with historical and scientific analysis. \u00a0<em>All About Tea<\/em> is the fruit of his mini-empire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/03\/22\/1935\/1935-ill3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1381 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill3-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill3-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill3-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill3-768x1169.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill3-1009x1536.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill3-624x950.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill3.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>In this book, Ukers examines the tea trade from the ground up, just as he had done in his first book, 1922\u2019s <em>All About Coffee<\/em> (also in MIT\u2019s collections). \u00a0His research led him to Brazil, Sumatra, Colombia, India, China, Japan, and the ports of Africa, Europe, and the Americas, often for months at a time. Between the two books, he published the \u201cLittle Journey Series,\u201d several short travelogues that detailed the trade in individual countries.<\/p>\n<p><em>All About Tea<\/em> has continued to sell, and was reprinted as recently as 2007. A two-volume set, MIT\u2019s copy is a first edition, generously illustrated with photos, drawings, portraits, and other curiosities \u2013 long-since vanished tea labels, trademarks, and annotated maps. <em>The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal <\/em>and its online companion <em>Ukers\u2019 International Tea and Coffee Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/em> are still published in print and online, and remain the industry standard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/03\/22\/1935\/1935-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1382 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/03\/22\/1935\/1935-ill1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1383 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/03\/22\/1935\/1935-ill2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1384\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1384 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/03\/1935-ill2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/jp08pj\/alma990011205430106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: New York, 1935 In 1901, 27-year-old William H. Ukers worked as an editor for The Spice Mill, the in-house magazine of the Jabez Burns coffee company. \u00a0Taking note of a growing trend, he suggested to his boss that the magazine expand to become a trade journal. \u00a0The boss dismissed the idea, Ukers summarily quit, and the rest is coffee and tea history \u2013 literally. As legend has it, Ukers started The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal that very day. \u00a0He would devote his entire career to the journal and its publishing imprint, which fused up-to-date reportage with historical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}