My recent trip to Maine has got me thinking a lot about lobsters. You can’t go for more than about two minutes up there without encountering a lobster somewhere – either on a roadside sign, a tea towel, a postcard, or – if you’re lucky – in a restaurant. I ate a lot of lobster while I was there. Once …
Lobster Pad Thai (a second helping)
[Apologies for rehashing an old post, but this was such a popular one when I first stuck it up last October that it seemed worth doing again. It drew more readers to the old blog than any other post – to the point where if you googled “lobster pad thai”, it was the first thing that popped up. And it’s …
Lobster Pad Thai
This lunatic quest began some time ago as I was reading an amusing piece by a writer named Steve Almond about eating lobster pad thai in Maine. As I read, I licked my lips and pictured myself serving up a similarly ravishing masterpiece to a rapturous reception. The fact that I had cooked neither (a) pad thai nor (b) lobster …