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Eater's Digest

Where to Find the Best Lobster Rolls in the World (Amy Traverso, Editor of Yankee Magazine)

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Amy Traverso knows a thing or two about lobster rolls. The food editor of Yankee Magazine and co-host of Weekends With Yankee recently compiled her findings from an exhaustive RV tour of New England in an impressive feature called The Great Lobster Roll Adventure. Listen as Amy talks to Helen and Greg about why lettuce is the villain of the lobster roll saga, why Boston has restaurants with such truly awful names, and why she hates Jimmy Buffett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Eater Uppsel part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:07.2

I am one of your two hosts Helen Rosner.

0:09.2

My co-host Greg Moribito is silently sitting over there in the corner giving me a significant look.

0:14.0

On today's episode of the eater upsell, hi Greg, I hear you laughing in the background.

0:18.0

Hey, yeah, no, that was, I'm here, I'm here, I'm excited, I'm excited for I'm here I'm excited I'm excited I'm excited on today's

0:25.0

today's episode because it is the peaks or depending on how you feel about the

0:29.2

season the depths of summer we are talking with probably the world's greatest lobster roll expert.

0:35.2

Amy Traverso is the senior food editor of Yankee magazine, which is the New England culture

0:40.6

and food magazine, and she's basically literally, it is her job to tell the world

0:44.3

where the best lobster rolls in New England are which means the best lobster rolls in

0:48.8

the world. She's also the host of weekends with Yankee a show that you may have seen on PBS where she

0:54.4

and some other folks travel around New England showing you all sorts of cool stuff

0:58.3

that you can eat and do and see and be in the beautiful dream that is men Massachusetts and Vermont and New

1:05.2

Hampshire and all those pretty coastal states. So before we get to Amy Truroso

1:09.6

Greg I understand you have something you want to talk about.

1:12.4

Somewhere on the internet, I can't actually off the top my head remember which publication was talking

1:17.2

about how great Nashville style hot chicken was and basically saying it's the best kind of

1:22.3

fried chicken.

1:23.0

I'm going to guess literally every publication.

1:26.0

That the answer here is actually every

1:28.0

even like non-food publications have everyone has written a story at some point I think legally mandated in the

1:34.1

last 12 months to write a story saying that Nashville Hot Chicken is the greatest

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