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Lobster Shacks: A Road-Trip guide to New England’s Best Lobster Joints, and here's why:
There is nothing better than a giant red lobster on my plate during the Summer. Strap on a huge bib to cover my adorable summer outfit and game on, I am ready to crack. Sometimes it is fun to do it yourself. However, I much prefer the whole experience of a real Lobster Shack. Now I can find all of the best Lobster Houses across the North East with the turn of a page. Mike Urban makes it so easy with “Lobster Shacks: A Road-Trip guide to New England’s Best Lobster Joints”. From locations to recipes to menus everything to make your mouth drool. Having actually been to a couple of the joints listed, I was able to see if I had the same experience and it helped me to relive that melted golden butter all over again. So if you are planning a road trip this Summer, get your read on early and plan to stop at some of these Lobster Shacks. Maybe I will even see you there!
We here at Whom You Know are big fans of great food. After writing over 150 reviews of Manhattan restaurants, we've seen and tasted quite an array. And hands down, one of our favorite delicacies is lobster. There's just nothing quite like fresh lobster. Whether it's broiled or steamed, or in the form of a bisque or a roll or some other variation, that sweet, buttery, fresh lobster taste is just impossible to beat. And, I think, pretty much any lobster aficionado would agree that New England lobsters are the best in the country. But how to determine which shacks to try? Happily, author Mike Urban has written a fantastic guide to help the lobster lover navigate the New England lobster shack waters, so to speak! Aptly titled Lobster Shacks: A Road-Trip Guide to New England's Best Lobster Joints, the book gives a lively, entertaining account of some of the greatest lobster eateries in the country! Starting in Connecticut and winding his way up through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, he leads the readers on a journey through the best of the best, including histories and anecdotes from the various lobster shacks, as well as superb recipes straight from the best lobster shack chefs. A fun, easy read for summertime, and a great book to bring along on a New England road trip!
When thinking of summer road trips delicious food pops into one's mind and nothing sounds better than fresh lobster in the summer. In "Lobster Shacks, a road-trip guide to New England's Best Lobster Joints" by Mike Urban your mouth will be watering as you speed down the highway to discover all of these great places. Highlighting Shacks in Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, "Lobster Shacks", gives you the best of the best lobster joints. Filled with beautiful pictures, maps and fun stories this is the perfect beach read to dream up your seafood dinner, or plan out that summer seafood party. The Lobster Lexicon will teach you all the lobster terminology you will need to know to become a true King of the sea, be sure to study, as there will be a test. OK, no test but did you know a "cull" is a lobster missing one claw, yup it's a one clawed lobster. "Lobster Shacks" is also filled with great recipes, from coleslaw to lobster bisque and more, you will get the low down on the country's best lobster recipes. If you are anything like us, and Peachy too, you just can't get enough of New England lobster. And believe us Peachy knows a thing or two about great food, after-all she has reviewed over 150 Manhattan restaurants. Peachy is constantly sharpening her knifes to bring you the best of the best from the culinary world. We are sure that Peachy and Mike Urban would be fast friends. Mike Urban's "Lobster Shacks, a road-trip guide to New England's Best Lobster Joints" is the yummiest treat we've read all summer, a great hostess gift or coffee table book, pick up this fun read today.
Nothing says summer like some delicious lobster! Being a New England girl, I need my lobster fix in the summer. I am always seeking out the best places to get it and am so happy to now have the Lobster Shack book! Not only does it have great recipes to try, but also great places to go for lobster! Whom You Know has reviewed over 150 restaurants in Manhattan and happens to be an expert in the world of excellent seafood. We have also recently expanded our dining reviews to areas in Connecticut in order to experience New England's best dining! This book provides a wonderful, extensive guide for New England's best lobster shacks! Many of these places are only known in their local communities for their excellence. Now people can travel far and wide to enjoy the best lobster! I can't wait to venture out to New England this summer and try some of these places out!
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While it has no basis in fact, it’s sure tempting to believe that US Route 1 was originally paved to
serve the millions of people who road-trip it each year in search of purveyors of cooked (or raw)
shellfish. From Connecticut and heading north through Maine, you might then be able to say that this
road—heck, all roads lead to lobster.
On the heels of last year’s Clam Shacks (Cider Mill Press), undisputed “Shack Man” Mike Urban
has done his due diligence for the northeast’s other world-famous cuisine, rounding up and visiting
the best of the best lobster eateries in the region, and offering us LOBSTER SHACKS: A Road-Trip
Guide to New England’s Best Lobster Joints (Countryman Press Paperback Original; June 4, 2012;
$18.95).
Bringing you up close to the people who each add a special touch to the way they cook and serve
a lobster, these 75 profiles of the most unmissable shacks, pounds, wharfs, docks, huts, and bars
include historical background on each restaurant, information on the local fishing fleets that supply
them, and some of have even offered recipes of their most popular dishes! Of course, we’d all rather
eat the real thing, but if you can’t get to Provincetown, MA, try your own hand at the delicious lobster
bisque at Townsend’s Lobster & Seafood (p. 77). Or if The Lobster Dock in Boothbay Harbor, ME,
isn’t on your itinerary, there’s no reason to have to miss out on its signature menu item, a festival of
fish called Seafood Fra Diavolo (p. 163).
No matter where you find yourself on the New England Lobster Trail, Urban will show you that
you’re not far from a great local spot to satisfy your craving. And when you get there, you can take
pride in knowing a whole lot more than the average visitor about the heart and soul built into each of
these irreplaceable New England establishments—at least until you sink your teeth into that first bite
of lobster roll. After that, nothing matters but the lobster.
Mike Urban is a writer, editor, and book packager who specializes in travel, outdoor recreation, and
food books. Most previously the author of Clam Shacks: The Ultimate Guide to New England’s Most
Fantastic Seafood Eateries, Urban lives in Old Saybrook, CT, with his wife and their four children.
LOBSTER SHACKS, by Mike Urban | Countryman Press Paperback Original
$18.95 | ISBN 978-0-88150-999-1 | Publication date: June 4, 2012
