Choose your crustacean!

The food here has been, I must say, outstanding for a conference, and even better for being served in a college cafeteria. Perhaps this is to make up for the spartan rooms, which have been either too cold or too hot. Foodwise, it has been a challenge to not pig out, but I have taken a large salad with every meal.

But last night they outdid themselves: Maine lobster!



Apparently this arthopodic feast is a tradition at the Gordon Research Conferences, at least the ones held at Colby-Sawyer College. (There are at least half a dozen being held simultaneous any given week during the summer.) I have no complaints. The lobster was sweet and succulent and prepared perfectly.

There was also sides of smoke salmon, caprese salad, roasted asparagus, baked brie, sweet potato tortellini, and I forget what else.

Of course there was dessert:



That was last night. This morning we take a bus back down to Boston. Next week I have the UNEDF collaboration meeting in East Lansing, Michigan, near Michigan State University, and so I'm spending the weekend with friends rather than on an airplane going to San Diego, stepping off, and getting right back on again.