A personal love affair with tea that began nearly 50 years ago prompted the opening of Take Tea, a British-style tearoom in proprietor Nann Thomson’s hometown of Avon, Connecticut, where she draws upon her time spent in both England and Ireland.
“My introduction to the pleasures of tea first occurred when I was living in Galway, Ireland, for a couple of years in the 1970s and later in Devon, England, while I studied law at the University of Exeter in 1984,” she explains. “Tea was a delicious addition to the more informal event called a cream tea. Traditionally cream teas consist of pots of tea accompanied by scones, clotted cream, and jam. During those times,
