Tips on how to avoid eating lousy lobster
NEW YORK - Among life’s great disappointments is the mediocre lobster dinner. You’ve been there, right? Perhaps you were celebrating a job promotion or an anniversary or were just indulging a piscivorous yen.

Wine tasting 101
Wine can be intimidating. Consider all the talk of vintages, the wordy labels, arcane pouring rituals and attendant rigamarole. Just four simple steps, though, can help you feel less like the lone VW Beetle owner at a Porsche convention: See it, smell it, sip it and savor it.

It's good to get away - get a taste of a true drive-in restaurant
In Casco Bay near Brunswick, Maine, is a private island called "Ham Loaf" (a past president of Bowdoin College named Ham lived there).