Sarah Rose

Rodeo, Hawaii Style – American Way Magazine

sarah — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:01:41 +0000

Surfing might be the state’s best known sport, but Hawaii’s teen cowboys are rocking America’s most competitive rodeo – American Way Magazine.

Blockbuster Hotels – BRIDES Magazine

sarah — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:58:11 +0000

Five movies, five scene stealing hideaways – BRIDES magazine

The 10 lb pack – Men’s Journal

sarah — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:45:00 +0000

Best Folding Bikes – Men’s Journal

sarah — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:58:38 +0000

Chefs and Class – Men’s Journal

sarah — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:50:53 +0000

Teach a Man to Fish: the Gift of Cooking Class – Men’s Journal

Best Chefs in the National Parks – Men’s Journal

Sarah Rose on NPR’s Good Food

sarah — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:05:39 +0000

Sarah Rose on FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA begins at the 15 minute mark

Sarah Rose on NPR’s All Things Considered

sarah — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:26:50 +0000

The Tea Thieves: How a Drink Shaped an Empire

“A wonderful combination of scholarship and storytelling” – Guy Raz, NPR host All Things Considered.

Raves for Tea – Washington Post

sarah — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:09:11 +0000

With her probing inquiry and engaging prose, Sarah Rose paints a fresh and vivid account of life in rural 19th-century China and Fortune’s fateful journey into it…if ever there was a book to read in the company of a nice cuppa, this is it.

Washington Post Book Review

Tea Love – Minneapolis, Chicago, Hong Kong, Beijing, London

sarah — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:04:24 +0000

In “For All the Tea in China,” the most eventful era of the tea plant gets the inspired treatment it deserves. – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Pause to reflect that the tea you are enjoying is totally hot — as in, stolen! Nabbed! Ripped off! Nothing more than the subject of international corporate espionage! – Chicago Sun Times

The spy who loved tea. The Express (p1, p2)

The most fun and exciting new book I have read this year. Beijing Today

Rose has done well. – South China Morning Post, Hong Kong

This story is nothing less than remarkable. San Francisco Book Review

Sarah Rose’s history of how tea came to be cultivated outside China reads like an adventure yarn.…That he succeeded, lived to tell tale is nothing short of amazing, Rose does full justice in her appealing book. - Charlotte Post and Courier

Somehow stories like these get lost as memories fade…for some reason the incredible trek of Robert Fortune has lain dormant – until author Sarah Rose dusted off his old journals and brought him back to life. – Connect Savannah

Sarah Rose spins this out into a popular history that provides cameos of the late Qing Dynasty, global economics, the development of botany, the tea industry, Victorian sanitation, and other interesting or delicious tidbits. - Asian Review of Books

[FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA] reads like a novel and will take you on a roller coaster of a ride from first page to last. – Newnan-Cowenta Magazine

[Robert Fortune] broke the tea cartel and brought tea-drinking, for both the rich and the poor, to its central place in British life today. – Great British Life

One of the niftiest and most interesting histories I’ve read lately. - Montrose Daily Press

Raves for Tea – Associated Press

sarah — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:29:27 +0000

The plot for Sarah Rose’s “For All the Tea in China” seems tailor-made for a Hollywood thriller…a story that should appeal to readers who want to be transported on a historic journey laced with suspense, science and adventure.

19th-century industrial spy stole no.1 drink – Associated Press