I love lobsters. For me, lobsters are the symbol of warm summer days in Maine. As evidenced below, I like them steamed and in a lobster roll. Last week when my boyfriend and I were eating dinner at J’s Oyster in Portland, Maine, a woman next to us was butchering her lobster. It was so painful to watch. I didn’t understand what she was doing because the placemats at the restaurant had a tutorial on how to eat a lobster. I guess everyone has their own way of eating a lobster but there are definitely easier ways to get to the lobster meat. This is how I eat my lobster…
1. I twist the claws off.
2. I use the lobster cracker to get the claw meat out.
3. I bend the tail back and twist it off.
4. I break off the fin.
5. Using a fork, I take the tail meat out.
6. I unhinge the body shell from the body and place all the pieces on a plate.
