Drink Your Tea and the Quest for the Panacea of Beverages
Online Exhibit
Two exhibits are on display at Shields and Carlson Health Sciences Libraries in conjunction with the 5th Annual Colloquium of the Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science.
Shields Library
Drink Your Tea (or Wine) curated by Daniel Goldstein (dgoldstein@ucdavis.edu) and Leyla Cabugos (lrcabugos@ucdavis.edu)
Carlson Health Sciences Library
The Quest for the Panacea of Beverages curated by Erik Fausak (edfausak@ucdavis.edu)
UC Davis Library
Leyla Cabugos, Daniel Goldstein, and Erik Fausak
Erik Fausak
Student Services Librarian
Drink Your Tea (or Wine)
Located in the Shields Library Lobby. The Eastern Towhee whose call is similar to someone saying, “drink your tea”, is the mascot for this exhibit.
- Daniel Goldstein, co-curator
- Leyla Cabugos, co-curator
Bibliography
![]() | Global Tea Breeding : Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives. (2012) L Chen, Z Apostolides & Z Chen Shields Lib SB271 .G56 2012 | ![]() | Cha Pu. 第1版 (2007) J Chen Shields Lib GT2907.C6 C46533 2007 |
![]() | Cultivating Femininity : Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan. (2018) R Corbett Shields Lib GT2910 .C67 2018 | ![]() | Chigusa and the Art of Tea. (2014) LA Cort Shields Lib NK4695.S76 C49 2014 |
![]() | Organic Tea : Cultivation and Marketing (2006). H Ghosh Shields Lib SB272.I5 G46 2006 | ![]() | Tea : History, Terroirs, Varieties. (2018). K Gascoyne, H Americi, J Desharnais, F Marchand, & Camellia Sinensis Tea House. Shields Lib TX415 .G3713 2018 |
![]() | Tea : A Potted History of Tea in New Zealand. (2006) S Goldsmith Shields Lib GT2907.N45 G654 2006 | ![]() | The Tea Lords. (2011) HS Haasse Shields Lib PT5838.H45 H4713 2011 |
![]() | Tocklai & Tea : --as the Road Fades Away. (2011). M Hazarika, M Talukdar, SH Patgiri Shields Lib HD9198.I4 .T63 2011 | ![]() | The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook : A Guide to Enjoying the World’s Best Teas (2010). ML & R Heiss Shields Lib TX415 .H438 2010 |
![]() | The Rise of Tea Culture in China : The Invention of the Individual. (2015) B Hinsch Shields Lib GT2907.C6 H55 2015 | ![]() | Das Geheimnis Des Tees (2009) H Hu & C Steenberg Shields Lib GT2905 .H8 2009 |
![]() | Tea and Tourism : Tourists, Traditions and Transformations. (2007) L Joliffe Shields Lib GT2905 .T413 2007 | ![]() | Tea Manufacture in South India (1937) KBW Jones Shields Lib TP650 .J65 |
![]() | Ancillary Justice (2013) A Leckie Shields Lib PS3612.E3353 A83 2013 | ![]() | Bian Yin Zhongguo Cha. 第1版. ed. (2013) T Li Shields Lib GT2907.C6 L523 2013 |
![]() | Homegrown tea : an illustrated guide to planting, harvesting, and blending teas and tisanes (2014) C LIversidge Shields Lib SB271 .L66 2014 | ![]() | Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement : Imperial Families, Interrupted. (2017) J McCabe Shields Lib DS430 .M35 2017 |
![]() | The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm and the Creation of Japanese America (2019) DA Metraux Shields Lib F870.J3 M48 2019 | ![]() | Tea Culture of Japan (2009) S. Ohki Shields Lib GT2910 .O39 2009 |
![]() | DIY kombucha : sparkling homebrews made easy(2018) A Potter Shields Lib TP650 .P68 2018 | ![]() | New Tea Lover’s Treasury. (1999) JN Pratt Shields Lib TX415 .P68 1995 |
![]() | A taste of bitterness : the political economy of tea plantations in Sri Lanka (1986) R Rote Shields Lib HD9198.C42 R6 1986 | ![]() | The Japanese tea ceremony : Cha-no-yu and Zen art of mindfulness. (2019) AL Sadler Shields Lib GT2910 .S3 2019 |
![]() | Everyday Sustainability : Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling. (2017) D Sen Shields Lib HD6073.T182 I474 2017 | ![]() | World atlas of tea : from the leaf to the cup, the world's teas explored and enjoyed. (2016) K Smith Shields Lib GT2905 .S65 2016 |
![]() | Hand-Book of Castes and Tribes Employed on Tea Estates in North-East India. (1924) Tea Districts Labour Association Shields Lib DS422.C3 T4 1924 | ![]() | 500 teapots : contemporary explorations of a timeless design. (2002) SJE Tourtillott Shields Lib NK4695.T43 A14 2002 |
![]() | Korean Tea Classics (2010) M Yi Shields Lib GT2907.K6 Y56 2010 | ![]() | Dong Yang Cha Wen Hua. (2016) Z. Zhao Shields Lib GT2907.C6 D664 2016 |
The Quest for the Panacea of Beverages

Tea and Wine have been historically associated with medicinal purposes for centuries. This exhibit follows the progression of tea and wine in health literature over the centuries, from expert opinion to clinical trials to the epitome of evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews. In our display we start with tea and a famous book that examines it’s health benefits, Ben Cao Gang Mu:
We can find that tea versus wine has often been discussed and this discussion can be witnessed in this 1840 book review and the original book being reviewed can be found here:
If you would like to see the great quantity of clinical trials that occur, see the results in medical database, PubMed
The UC Davis Library Systematic Review Guide
Look at how many systematic reviews exist on tea and it’s health benefits in PubMed
We follow a similar trajectory with Wine and the Incipit Tractatus de Vinis:
If you would like to see the great quantity of clinical trials that occur, see the results in medical literature database, PubMed
For more systematic reviews on wine, please see these results from PubMed