Across
- 1. My ____ for tea continues to grow and I maintain my practice of doing something new each time I visit (China). - Roy Fong (The Great Teas of China)
- 3. Tea is literally _______ in history, a history that spans the world Cynthia Gold. (Culinary Tea)
- 6. The world of tea is a glorious one, redolent with variety and ________; the self-evident blessings of a naturally conceived product should be the answer to our fear of what is regularly hidden in today's ingredients lists. - Will Battle (World Tea Encyclopedia)
- 8. Though the languages we speak, the food we eat, and the clothes we wear may be worlds apart, the ____ of the tea we drink can bridge the oceans that stand between us and let us share in a common experience. Donna Fellman (Tea Here Now)
- 10. Tea is a ________ of the world. As a consiousness-altering agent it is mankind's kindliest ally in the vegetable kingdom. - James Norwood Pratt (Tea Lover's Treasury)
- 11. Everything known of its (tea's) beginning is so inextricably intertwined with things patently _____ and fabulous, that we can only aguely surmise which is fact and which is fancy. - William Ukers (All About Tea)
- 15. Tea changed the role of _____ on the world stage. - Sarah Rose (For All The Tea In China)
- 16. The tea plant is native to China's Yunnan province, where it still grows ____. - Kevin Gascoyne (Tea; History, Terroirs, Varieties)
- 17. Strangely enough _____ has so far met in the tea-cup. - Okakura Kakuzo (The Book of Tea)
Down
- 2. Certainly the _____ uplift from a good cup of tea - and the soothing qualities of any hot beverage - has always been a boon to well-being. - Sebastian Beckwith (A Little Tea Book)
- 4. You don't need elaborate or expensive ____ to make intriguing tea beverages at home. Nicole Wilson (The Tea Recipe Book)
- 5. True ceremonial tea drinking began with _____ (1141-1215), who came back from China with the precepts of Zen Buddhism, tea seeds and possibly bushes, and the customs and uses of tea he had learned in Chinese Zen temples. - William Scott Wilson (The One Taste of Truth; Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea)
- 7. The history of tea intertwines mythology, fact, legend, and cultural folklore. This story starts inside ancient forests and temples, and transitions to a prominent place within modern, _____ commerce through an amazing patchwork of interconnected events. - Brian Keating (How To Make Tea)
- 9. Tea offers us contemplation that is so rich and old, if we had eyes to see, time to taste, and a thirst for its _____, we could travel to the ends of the earth and plumb the depths of our hearts. - Becca Stevens (The Way of Tea And Justice)
- 12. Anthropologists speculate that prehistoric humans (the species Homo erectus) discovered indigenous tea trees growing wild in the forests of _____. Mary Lou and Robert J. Heiss (The Tea Enthusiast's Handbook)
- 13. A good black Yunnan can have lots of _____ yellow gold leaves. - Helen Gustafson (The Agony of the Leaf)
- 14. Tea opened up spaces for women to move regardless; political _____ and entrepreneurship are examples. - Peter Keen. (Heroines of Tea)