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Picture this: It’s a sunny afternoon. You’re sitting outside at a picnic table, looking out at the water and waiting for your number to be called from the loudspeaker of a tiny seafood shack. Your order arrives on a colorful plastic tray: Alongside a bag of potato chips and maybe a pickle is a squishy hot dog bun filled with succulent lobster meat lightly dressed in a bit of mayonnaise. You smell the ocean breeze and take your first bite. It tastes like summer in Maine.

This is the experience I look forward to all year along. Just the mere thought of it gets me through the cold, bitter Connecticut winters. When the ground thaws and the birds start to chirp again, my husband and I eagerly head up to our family house on a little island in Maine. And just as we return to Vacationland every May, many of our favorite seafood shacks also begin to reopen for the busy season. Sure, there’s plenty of other interesting, creative food to sample in the Pine Tree State, but eating a lobster roll will always be my favorite summer rite of passage.

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