Grilled Maine or Spiny Lobster with Garlic Sauce

I first tasted this garlic-blasted grilled lobster at a seaside fish shack on Mexico’s Isla Mujeres. On receiving my order, the chef walked out on a pier, extracted a spiny lobster from a metal cage in the water, and whacked it in half, using a large chef’s knife. The glaze featured an unexpected ingredient: salsa inglese—literally “English sauce, ” as Worcestershire sauce is often called in these parts, which always strikes me as odd because Mexico is one of the few places in North