Doug Freyburger > wrote:

>I have long preferred California spiney lobster and Australian lobster
>to Maine lobster.

For sure the Austrailian, if one can obtain it, is best.

>But then again I have long preferred Alaska king crab
>over Washington dungeness while my wife has the opposite preference.

For me Dungeness is the best crab. It's at its absolute best
at the very beginning of the season... really through about
New Years then it declines.

Steve