Shelley G.

Acton's was, I believe, sold awhile ago. I did not care for the service last time - far too pushy. However, King Edward VIII' s favourite omelette remains a treat - lots of lobster, and napped with a white port sauce.

I am rather partial to "The Queen of Cups Teahouse", in Nova Scotia, though I cannot claim any lack of bias, since I named it.

Newman's [or is it Neuman's] in Annapolis Royal is very good. In Wolfville there is the Blomidon Inn and another opened last year I believe, Storm perhaps? It had a weather related name and was featured on the Food TV program "Opening Soon". It is indeed Neuman's, and it is good. In Wolfville, the restaurant related to weather is The Tempest, and it is better than good... Wonderfully innovative without being precious. A singularly voluptous coconut creme brulee is my favourite sweet there.

Oh, I hope that you do - the first time I attempted one, I could not stop thinking about that show. The convulsions of laughter that seized me were perhaps a tad more than detrimental to the aesthetic of the cake, but I felt myself to be in the finest of culinary company. I now do a number of them every year, and still get a good chuckle over the recollection of my first try. I wonder how it will be this year. I think that I will perhaps laugh and cry both - but still I suspect that the laughter will triumph. Even as I am sure it must have done with Julia Child.

She made so much accessable to those who might otherwise have been discouraged... And she seemed so very generous in spirit. I must admit that I think all the really fine chefs and cooks I have met have the same quality of large-heartedness. She certainly inspired me with a wish to make wonderful things for people to eat - and with a certain dogged perseverance in the face of culinary disaster. I recall a hilarious (in hindsight, of course) involving the frosting on a Yule Log...