A lovely spot of tea

[ellen_datlow]

A friend and I discovered a lovely place to have tea in the east village: Podunk, which is much nicer than its name. At 2:45 it was empty so I had time to read a few pages of Simmons' The Terror while waiting. I had a pot of lady grey tea and a high tea (it wasn't called that) with cucumber sandwiches (no crusts of course), cookies, scones and jam and cream, plus some cake (I brought home the cake bits and cookies). I gather it was packed a few hours earlier and it started filling up again by the time we left at 4:30. Definitely worth another visit.

Comments

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

It's in Massachusetts. I've been there. It doesn't exist as a town anymore, but several streets still exist with the name. If I recall correctly, it was one of our local Native American tribes' word for "that backwater tribe over there."

[lagilman]

Actually, the Podunk Indians were in Connecticut-- the Hartford area. But there are a bunch of towns/rivers/schools using the name throughout New England.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

In Virgina, we have Pungo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pungo,_Virginia), which is pretty similar. It got eaten up by Virginia Beach when they annexed the county, but it was an Indian name for a small out-of-the-way place.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I checked on google and there are several towns all over the place that currently use the name.