In early February I was in the Village of St. Martins (home of the famous Sea Caves and gateway to the Fundy Trail) for a couple of meetings. In January I was contacted by a Village resident inviting me to visit her Tea Room and discuss the Booktown initiative in the community.
There are a couple of reasons why I'm blogging about this - first and foremost is the impressive east coast hospitality! Jackie had read my earlier blog entry about travelling and eating out as a Celiac and immediately offered to make me a gluten-free chocolate cake. I expected, at best, a store bought cake as hard as cardboard and just as flavourful. But I was pleasantly surprised by amazing homemade soup with gluten free bread for dipping, a boat-load of tea (50+ varieties on site I believe) and a true homemade chocolate cake.
Over the course of a very leisurely lunch Jackie and Eric filled me in on the Booktown concept (www.booktown.net) and the challenges of being a "Senior-preneur". Watch for a feature article on Jackie & Eric and their unique tea room/book store this spring!
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good to see your article on the Tea Room... We fell in love with the area when we went there on a picnic in '98 ... immediately fell in love with it, searched out land & bought it a week later...We moved to St.Martins in 2000 and built our home studio there...
be careful about spending a warm afternoon in August on the wish-rock beaches... you might just become captivated like we were.
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