Lobsters: Enjoy the Feast
Several weeks ago, a seafood restaurant imported Australian
lobster; the taste was delicious. I assumed, they had the
lobsters frozen to be sent here, but then I found out they might
not have. Since the lobsters taste better fresh, they are
shipped in carefully refrigerated trucks, alive.
That is why, inside a seafood store or restaurant, I try to
avert my eyes as the lobsters climb on each other, overflowing
the tank. I'm afraid to look a live lobster in the face out of
guilt. On the other hand, it may be far more merciful to grant
an escape to the animal rather than have it spend another night
inside the tank.
Within a few miles to where we live, in Jensen Beach-Florida,
there's a quality seafood restaurant with a seafood store near
it, called New England Clam, Fish and Chowder. I enjoy the food
there and they bring in their lobsters mostly from Maine or off
the coasts of the Caribbean.
Lobster cooked in any form is appetizing: lobster bisque,
lobster rolls, lobster in a basket with drawn butter, spicy
shrimp and lobster linguine, lobster cocktail, lobster chowder,
baked stuffed lobster, cr