Luke's lobster roll (with a green pen)

Pearl's lobster roll (with a green pen)

1. So Pearl’s roll and Luke’s roll are having a face-off. Who’s gonna win?

2. Red Hook Lobster Pound now has a truck in DC. We are VERY JEALOUS.

3. Can lobsters grow to be 400 pounds? Discuss.

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have a weekend full of crustacean love!

Funny you should ask!

more on this, here.

Yowsers, you take a break from lobsters for a week to switch your focus to Argentinian wine, and your inbox explodes with lobster love!

So let’s make a little list for ourselves to keep it organized.

1. Could lobsters unlock the secrets (and provide a cure) for paralysis? New studies suggest yes.

2. The New York Times’ Diner’s Journal discusses Luke’s Lobster, and its imminent new location:

The new place will be a bit larger, with 20 to 30 seats, and the menu will be a bit longer, adding fried clams and shrimp, French fries, and possibly crab and lobster cakes. They’ll also be selling beer and wine.They’ll probably have the same hours as their location at 93 East Seventh Street (First Avenue), 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, to midnight on weekends.

This is exciting, but we’re hoping for a Brooklyn location next. The article was also published with this image, one of the best looking lobster roll pictures I’ve seen in quite some time. And that’s really saying something.

photo by Lee Clower

3. No. 7 Sub Shop, on the ground floor of the Ace Hotel, has an IMITATION LOBSTER ROLL, and reports are it’s GOOD. Here’s what’s in it (I will make it bold and red for a special effect):

Pickled Ginger Mayo, Candied Wasabi, Potato Chips

Please, someone try this and get back to us.

4. Old news from Thrillist, but this picture is just too Ali G and insane not to post.

5. Ben Sargent is a media machine.

6. Red Hook Lobster Pound reports it will start its Sifton-approved weekend “lobster feasts” again this Friday (from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m.) and Saturday (4 p.m. till 8 p.m.). $25 gets you a lobster, sides, and access to the lovely roof-deck at Rocky Sullivan’s.

Ayum.

That is all.

From Grubstreet:

As previously reported, the city is currently mulling over potential concessionaires for Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Red Hook Lobster Pound, which already has its claws in the Brooklyn Flea as well as the Flea’s new outpost at Central Park SummerStage, is hoping to roll out a cart, and what a cart! They’ve sent over the design that Suzannah Drake of DLAND Studios conjured up for them, complete with faux lobster tail made from parachute material stretched over aluminum. A little eye candy for you while the city continues to pore over applications.

You may think eating lobster in The Hamptons is all glitzy, fancy pants, gilded, fabulous and over-priced. It’s only a little bit like that. And at Multi Aquaculture Fish Farms, it’s not like that at all. It’s more like a David Lynch movie.

Located in Amagansett on Cranberry Hole Road, this place is not easy to find, and is a bit confusing when you do.

The branding’s a little unclear.

And there are things like disco balls.

But, they sell the delicious foods.

And amuse with hilarious art (there’s a continuing woman-on-lobster-theme).

There are herrings and chickens too.

The chickens donated their fresh eggs to our breakfast.

When you get tired of lobster art and getting splinters, you can always go classy and eat somewhere like Spinnakers in Sag Harbor.

YUM.

they use mayo.

Go lobsterHampton!

Complete with “ayups”. This is authentic, folks.

We did not know the trick about holding the lobster by its antenna to see if it is done. Good learnings.

Are you aware of the lobster race? It’s a phenomenon. It’s taking the country by storm. Bar Harbor does it, you can read about it in a little periodical called The New York Times.

And this town I-can’t-find-the-name-of does it too, and they have proof:

Why would someone race a lobster? Why, because “It’s less crowded than Belmont, and it’s hilarious.”

If you’re anywhere near Aiken, South Carolina on May 7th, I know what you’ll be up to. Yep, a lobster race.

In related news, I spent the morning racing lobster cookies to my mouth.

we all won.

We don’t know what to say!

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thanks, Susan.

A dear friend sent over a link to a rather dramatic interpretation of Irving Penn’s lobster and squid photography this morning, which claims that his succulent imagery is downright erotic.

I’m not sure I’d go that far, but it sure is purdy. And the man seems to have a sense of humor with a carving fork.

Do want to eat.

After my morning image satiation, I did what I do most days, and looked for wedding dresses online. I think we have a winner.

At first I thought this was just an amusing get-up, but it has quite the history!

The 1937 Lobster Dress was a simple white silk evening dress with a crimson waistband featuring a large lobster painted (by Dali) onto the skirt. From 1934, Dali had started incorporating lobsters into his work, including New York Dream-Man Finds Lobster in Place of Phone shown in the magazine American Weekly in 1935, and the mixed-media Lobster Telephone (1936). His design for Schiaparelli was interpreted into a fabric print by the leading silk designer Sache. It was famously worn by Wallis Simpson in a series of photographs by Cecil Beaton taken at the Château de Candé shortly before her marriage to Edward VIII.

Sigh. Probably not affordable.