Barbara's Comments "I love eating lobster — love it baked, sauteed, chilled in a salad. I do not like cooking it live, as I explain in Does A Lobsterman Wear Pants? Nor, I very recently discovered, do I even want to like touch it live. My publicist at Down East Books arranged for me to be interviewed for a feature story in the FOOD section of the Boston Herald. Naturally, the interviewer wanted a photo to complete the spread. I met the newspaper photographer at my local fish market, and the idea was for me to hold a live lobster in each hand. The fish guys hauled out two good sized ones — and I couldn't do it. The claws were banded, but those eight legs kept scrabbling in air, reminding me exactly why the word "lobster" came from the old French loppe, meaning spider. Lobsters are, indeed, arthropods, the same class as spiders. I don't do spiders. End of story."