‘A lobster salad is not a great dish but it is very particular. It wants only the simplest crispest green to set off the lobster and the mayonnaise. I will not have cucumber or parsley added as some do. I prefer to see lettuce only or at most with a few sprigs of watercress picked fresh from our stream. Tomato is anathema in this salad both for its flavour and its colour which takes off from that