Real Maine Food: 100 Plates from Fishermen, Farmers, Pie Champs, and Clam Shacks

Real Maine Food: 100 Plates from Fishermen, Farmers, Pie Champs, and Clam Shacks

Down-home recipes from the best restaurants, food artisans, bakeries, and farmers across the state. Eating a hot buttered lobster roll is like taking a mini-vacation: it conjures the scent of salt in the air and the crash of waves on the rocks—the essence of a day at the beach in Maine. Now, with Real Maine Food you can re-create this humble delicacy as well as more than 100 other Maine dishes at home. Maine has developed its own distinctive regional cuisine, characterized foremost by the excellent 

Ben Conniff, cofounder of Luke’s Lobster, has written for publications such as Playboy, Smithsonian, Yankee, Saveur, and Tasting Table. Luke Holden, the son of a Maine lobsterman, operates Luke’s Lobster, a casual restaurant with ten locations in New York, Philadelphia, D.C., and Bethesda, Maryland. Luke’s Lobster has been featured on The Today Show, the Food Network, Epicurious, and CNN, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, GQ, The Washington Post, and Condé Nast Traveler.