The Maine event

Tandem Coffee and Bakery in Portland, Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

The wine for the lobster bake came from Blue Hill Wine Shop.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

The garden at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

A celery gimlet and an Eventide lobster roll.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

The Goose Cove Resort on Deer Isle in Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

Lighthouses are plentiful in Maine’s Penobscot Bay.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

A lobster boat looking to haul in cages of crustaceans off the coast of Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

Fishermen hard at work on a lobster boat in Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago chef Ryan McCaskey, left, and fellow chef George Mendes of New York, kicking back in Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago chef Ryan McCaskey, left, with Four Season Farm owners Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

Chefs George Mendes (New York’s Aldea), from left, Phillip Foss (Chicago’s EL Ideas) and Ryan McCaskey (Acadia) in Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

Peekytoe crab toast.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

A beachside table awaits hungry guests at a lobster bake in Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

Sprague’s Lobster in Wiscasset, Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)

A smiling Tina Gray is known locally as the Crab Lady in this part of Maine.  (Ari Bendersky / Chicago Tribune)