From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-370702-622940
WINCHCOMBE, England (UPI) -- A Japanese woman has won this year's
award for operating the top tearoom in Britain, a country with a
markedly different tea tradition from her own.
Juri Miyawaki and her parents operate the Olde Bakery Tea Shoppe in
the quaint and ancient town of Winchcombe in the Cotswolds. Britain's
Tea Guild selected her teashop as its Top Tea Place for 2008, Yomiuri
Shimbun reported.
Miyawaki, 32, moved to Europe as a young girl when her father was
transferred there. She studied cooking in France and opened her
tearoom five years ago, trying to bring French cooking to the
Cotswolds, with little success.
One day, she overheard a customer complain the cakes just did not
taste right.
"That was an eye-opener," she said.
Miyawaki began studying books on British tea specialties and now
serves classics such as Victoria sponge cake.