Lunch Break

You Don’t Have to Go to Maine for the Perfect Lobster Roll This Summer

The experts at Eventide in Portland offer up valuable tips for lobster mastery and a sublime sandwich. (Just promise you’ll head up there as soon as you’re allowed.)

Photographer: Zack Bowen, courtesy of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House

Editor’s Note: As more people are working from home, Bloomberg Pursuits is running a weekly Lunch Break column that will highlight a notable recipe from a favorite cookbook and the hack that makes them genius.

President Trump isn’t known for his affinity for luxury foods. But in early June he began expressing keen interest in Maine lobster and flew there to meet with commercial fishermen. This week he signed a memo directing the Department of Agriculture to provide aid to the U.S. lobster industry.