For the Love of Lobster: Celebrating Atlantic Canada’s Favourite Crustacean

You don’t have to travel very far in Atlantic Canada to see an image of a red lobster on a roadside billboard or dominating a restaurant menu. In recent decades, the once-lowly crustacean, traditionally reserved for the lunch pails of the less fortunate in the region’s coastal communities, has become an international delicacy.

In this unique photographic gift book, author-photographer Denise Adams tells the ＂rags to riches＂ story of lobster, exploring the biology of this mysterious, well-armored underwater insect, the history and evolution of the Atlantic lobster fishery, and delicious traditional lobster recipes with a modern twist, like Silky She-Lobster Bisque and Quinoa Lobster Rolls.

A perfect gift for seafood lovers, tourists, and Atlantic Canadians curious about the region’s most iconic crustacean, For the Love of Lobster includes over 80 colour photographs of all things lobster.

Denise Adams has been a nature enthusiast since childhood. Her interest in drawing wildlife and painting landscapes is what drew her to leave New Brunswick for the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. These days her main occupation is in custom coastal home design and landscape consultations for the area of St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia. She blends her interest in nature, art, and photography in her writing and is the author of Atlantic Coastal Gardening, The Little Book of Sea and Soul, and For the Love of Lobster.