Rhapsodies

Lobster cooked the traditional way!

So today was one of the thing I’ve been looking forward to for the whole trip, my annual Maine Lobster! Lobster is a treat for me. Generally I find it rich enough that once a year is more than enough. So when I get my fix I want it to be good. Fortunately that’s not a hard thing. I’ve got several family members who specialize in such a thing. Since in Maine cooking lobster is like doing good barbecue in the rest of the world. My Dad does them great steaming them in seawater covered in seaweed.

This is what I expected them to be doing when we gathered seaweed today. So I have to confess I was confused when everyone mentioned “burn”

So anyway after a morning of photography and trail maintenance it was off to the clambake, the first real one I’ve been to since the seventies. It turned out that the burn was just that, the lobsters, corn, clams and assorted vegetables were baked in the seaweed over an open fire. I don’t pretend to be the expert on what good lobster is, but this was really good.

Also my mother’s famous Butterfly Bread went over very well.