Calico lobster on display at New England Aquarium
So you think blue lobsters are rare? The New England Aquarium is holding a lobster that’s way rarer than that.
The aquarium in Boston says it has a calico lobster that could be a 1-in-30 million find.
Campaign looks to lure P.E.I. lobster lovers
The provincial government is teaming up with local business to encourage Islanders to eat more lobster.
This is the fourth year of the Love Our Lobster Campaign.
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Working groups to get to work
Working groups aimed at finding ways to improve the lobster industry in Atlantic Canada will be sinking their claws into their task starting in January.
On Being Two/Celebrating With Lobster
Spurred on by visions of Julie Powell with turquoise rubber glove, freaking out in a bid to cook three lobsters a la Julia Child, in ‘Julie and Julia’, encouraged by a great 4-pager in the May 2011 issue of delicious (UK) and confronted by swimming lobsters at Sligro on my weekly shop, I bit the bullet and walked up to the ‘Fish man’ saying, ‘I´d like to buy a lobster please’.
On our short walk to the ´tank´, I asked him where the lobsters came from and was truly shocked to hear ´Canada´. Looking at my widened eyes, he said ´Don´t worry, they didn´t swim, they came by air´. And I actually thought they were local.
Photos: Rare blue lobster caught in P.E.I.
Prince Edward Island fisherman Blair Doucette has seen many different colours of lobsters — bright red, orange, yellow-red — in his 35-year career, but none like the rare blue lobster he caught on Wednesday.
Mr. Doucette trapped the lobster near North Rustico on the Island’s north shore. “I had only ever seen one of those on the television,” he says
The extremely uncommon pigment is the outcome of a genetic disorder.
Mr. Doucette put the lobster in a tank in his house, took some photos, and called a friend from the Rustico Harbour Fisheries Museum. “They have a little holding tank where they can put seafood for it. So we’re going to keep him in there.”
Quebec chef wins Iron Chef with lobster poutine
Quebec chef Chuck Hughes has won the epic TV food battle, Iron Chef America, beating out his heavyweight competitor with a plate of lobster poutine.
The Montreal cooking show host was the second Canadian and first Quebecer to “reign supreme,” as they say on the show, which aired Sunday night on Food Network Canada.
Hughes beat out Bobby Flay, one of the show’s resident culinary masters, in the kitchen stadium battle, which featured the secret ingredient — Canadian lobster.
Loving lobster: 15 succulent lobster recipes
Enjoy a succulent summer lobster dinner any way you like. Here we have lobster cakes, chowders, risottos, plus our classic whole steamed lobster recipe.
Live lobsters give full flavour to dishes, so opt for fresh over canned varieties. A bonus to steaming your own lobster (see recipe below) is the leftover cooking liquid makes a uniquely flavourful stock which can be used in many fish dishes.
To shell a lobster, first halve lengthwise. Twist off the claws at joint at the body, and separate into claw and arm sections. Break off the small part of the claw and remove meat, then discard claw shells. From here you can crack the arm and pick out meat. Last (but not least!) remove meat from lobster tail.
Canadians are crazy for East Coast lobster fest
Canada’s best festival? That would be the Pictou Lobster Carnival, which topped the voting in the WestJet online competition for 2010. The Calgary Stampede? Oh, yes, here it is in fourth place.
Pictou is a charming, historic Nova Scotia seaport with a population of almost 4,000, just across the Northumberland Strait from Prince Edward Island.
Its upset victory suggests that you don’t have to be a big city to throw a big party -it also suggests that people in Pictou are fiercely proud of their festival and have access to computers.
This season, the Pictou Lobster Carnival -which runs July 8 to 10 -marks the end of fishing season with three days of seemingly nonstop lobster dinners, music and special events.
Website tracks seafood dinners back to fishermen
A Canadian group is pioneering a high-tech web system that allows diners around the world to track their seafood back to the person who caught it.
Participating fishermen tag their catch and the information is entered intoThisfish.info.
Earlier this week, Nova Scotian Gordon Beaton caught a lobster in the Northumberland Strait, tagged it and sold it on. A couple of days later, Toronto diner Lynn Patterson ordered lobster at the Royal York Hotel.