The Spice Necklace

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Falmouth Harbour, Antigua:
April 27, 2012:
A feast for the eyes

“25 gallons of lobster bisque went in 45 minutes,” said the woman at the breakfast tent wearing an Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta shirt. It was the morning after the night before’s annual regatta “Sail Maine” event (sponsored by yachting interests from that state). Which explains why the lobsters – “100 pounds of them” – were big-clawed boys flown in from Maine, not their spiny Caribbean cousins. “And how much rum punch?” I asked. “Trade secret,” she replied, “but I’ll tell you we plan for 600 people – and 3 glasses per person. And it all disappeared.”

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