if you don’t want to leave, make plans to return.

fresh boiled lobster with drawn butter at the ogunquit lobster pound.

lobster yin and yang, with chinese “squirrel” sauce [a carrot-ginger-soy sauce] and an asian sabayon at arrows restaurant.

lobster bruschetta at the vine café.

lobster pizza with spinach, caramelized onions, and ricotta at caffé prego.

lobster benedict with [...]

having it all.

wood-fired mushrooms with truffled butter and parmesan

swordfish with pesto cream, steamed vegetables, mashed potatoes, and garden ratatouille

fudge pie with maple ice cream

When I was 9 years old, my family spent a single day in Maine in late November, during a time when we thought we might be finished spending [...]

the most important days of the year.

The traditional first meal of vacation at MC Perkins Cove:

plank roasted wild salmon; tarragon dipping sauce; corn custard.

It’s no secret that I love to travel.  The sights, smells, and tastes of another culture; the mental high that comes from exploring the world; the self-discovery that occurs when you learn to function [...]

dinner 8.10: the lobster pound.

“denial.”

1.5 lb fresh boiled lobster.

Photography is a great way to live in denial.  As someone who used to go months “forgetting” that I owned a camera, it is ironic that I now keep such a photographic record of my life experiences.  I would say I manage to capture fifty percent of my life with that [...]

dinner 8.10: mc perkins cove.

“a repeat visit.”

plank roasted wild salmon with fresh herbs; corn custard; “mom’s sauce.”

You know a restaurant is good if my family goes to it twice. On our final night of vacation, the four of us had two goals: eat a relaxed meal together and end with ice cream cones.

We decided to [...]