Lobster Rolls And Blueberry Pie

Escape to the Maine seashore, an exquisite summer sanctuary where vacations stretch out forever during long, golden days and food is the stuff from which memories are made. The summers that acclaimed chef Rebecca Charles and her family spent swimming in the Atlantic, scouring the beach for shells, and eating shore dinners inspired her to open the famed Greenwich Village restaurant Pearl Oyster Bar. In this heartwarming memoir, Rebecca combines more than seventy of her favorite recipes with captivating family stories. Rebecca's adventurous granduncle Sam Goldsmith first took the family from the sweltering summer streets of Brooklyn to the exclusive seaside resort of Kennebunkport. But it was his sisterinlaw Pearle Goldsmith, Pearl Oyster Bar's namesake and an opera singer with the Metropolitan and New York City operas, who fell in love with the rugged coast of Maine. Pearle passed this love on to her daughter, Eleanor, and her granddaughter, Rebecca. Rebecca recounts her family's threegeneration love affair with the small Yankee fishing village and shares the recipes that have New Yorkers waiting in line for hours to taste what food writer Ed Levine described as "the best lobster roll I have ever eaten." Rebecca breathes new life into classic beach food. Whether recreating an oldtime clambake or grilling a whole pompano, she imparts the expertise that has made her one of the foremost seafood chefs in the country.

Rebecca Charles, the owner and head chef of Pearl Oyster Bar in Greenwich Village in New York City, began her career in Manhattan, then left for nearly a decade to cook in Maine. Awarded four stars at the White Barn Inn in Kennebunkport, she returned to Manhattan to work as sous chef at the Upper East Side landmark Arcadia. After serving as executive chef at several New York City restaurants, she opened Pearl Oyster Bar in 1997 to enormous critical and popular acclaim. She lives in Greenwich Village but returns to the Kennebunks each summer Deborah DiClementi is a former television producer who has spent several years as a freelance writer for some of the top magazines in the country, including Cooking Light, Marie Claire, and Mademoiselle