23. Recipes from the United States – Part One, Northern New England

The eastern seaboard of the United States, from Maine to Georgia, is here divided into four parts. We start in New England, in the north.

Despite doubts about where the southern frontier of New England lies, it would seem natural to treat the whole of it together in the context of seafood cookery. However, the fish themselves recognize a sort of boundary line, corresponding to changes in water temperature, just south of Cape Cod, and it suits me to do the same. There is wealth enough of seafood in Maine and Massachusetts; or there should be.