Rockland, ME – The founder of Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine ® featuring authentic Maine lobster is bringing a new line of easy-eat lobster dishes to Boston to introduce at the annual International Boston Seafood Show.
Linda Bean, granddaughter of famed American outdoor retailer LL Bean, is a true believer in the unique attraction of Maine lobster around the world and has developed a creative ravioli pocket style pasta tagged Maine Pasta Lobster Traps™ shaped in one-ounce rectangular pockets of whole chunk lobster caught in a tasty cheese filling.
An accompanying product, Bean’s easy-pour Maine Lobster Parmesan Cream Sauce, she describes as “the perfect pour over fish, pasta, and steamed vegetables.”
“The lobster traps idea came to me while looking out my window at the lobster boats in our harbor and thinking how much kids enjoy seeing how lobsters are caught,” says Bean. The filling inside the traps presents real chunks of red lobster meat” appealing to kids and adults alike.
A fresh-off-the-boat taste for creamy lobster bisque was another challenge Bean determined to achieve. “And guess what?” says she. “The calories are surprisingly low in lobsters, and also in this bisque. You can add a quarter pound of lobster meat in the bisque for only an additional 70 calories! We also now offer the lobster meat already hand-picked, packed and frozen in a colorful 1- pound poly pouch for the home chef, too!”
But perhaps the most instantly successful new Product USA seafood specialty to come into retail from Maine in years is Linda Bean’s poly pack of cooked cocktail lobster claws, scored for easy shell removal. It is reportedly flying off the shelves at Walmart.
A new bag graphic for initiating other retailers is now ready for this show featuring, also, Bean’s newly trademarked name for this whole arm & claw product: Maine Lobster Cuddlers.® In foodservice Bean envisions the name “cuddlers” will give an instant mental image of the scored cocktail claw the way “tenders” does of chicken.
With a continuing stream of new product ideas in the pipe line, Bean’s personal mission is to help the lobstermen of Maine, who have been struggling for survival in a world where lobster has previously been considered unaffordable except at high dollar prices.
Bean declares, “At last we have Maine Lobster in ways that are affordable. Our claw products are recognizable for their Maine uniqueness, fishery sustainability, and Bean brand trust worthiness, and they come in fresh and frozen pouches straight from my own wharves. I’ve eliminated the processing middleman by owning and operating a plant myself, guaranteeing both affordable prices to the consumer and fairer pay to our fishermen.”
Show products, all in bottom-gusseted stand-up poly bags:
- Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster Cuddlers®, in-shell cooked, cracked for easy removal, full arm-claw sets, average 5 to 6 to a 1 pound bag. Serve on ice or hot microwaved on “defrost” from freezer to hot butter dipping in 11 minutes.
- Linda Bean’s Maine Pasta Lobster Traps™ each rectangular ravioli weighs approx one ounce with red lobster chunks caught in a tasty marscapone filling. 8 count bag pairs superbly with Linda Bean’s Lobster Parmesan Cream Sauce (below).
- Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster Parmesan Cream Sauce is Gluten Free and made with fresh Maine lobster meat in a creamy blend with Parmesan and Pecorino Romano cheeses, lemon zest and white pepper. The perfect pour over pasta, fish, and steamed vegetables to elevate them from ordinary to extraordinary with Maine lobster.
- Linda Bean’s Maine Creamy Lobster Bisque is all natural and surprisingly low in calories at 280 per 8-oz serving, and makes a perfect presentation all by itself, or with lobster claws added (available below). Made with fresh Maine lobster meat, onion, celery, marsala wine, lemon zest and white pepper. Strained to silky perfection.
- Linda Bean’s Cooked Maine Lobster Meat for the creative chef — from home to food network celebrity — the claw and arm joint succulence of Maine lobster is the top choice. Featured serving suggestions are ¼ pound lobster roll sandwiches, ¼ pound on salad greens, and ¼ pound blended into Linda’s creamy lobster bisque (above). The retail 1 one-pound poly pack can be used for many creative dishes or as a delicious low calorie, high protein snack food. Beautiful stand-up package and convenience with18-month freezer life.
Stop by and see Linda at booth #149.
If Linda Bean’s Maine lobster is on the label, you know quality is on the table™
About Us:
Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster™ and Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine® are brands designed to focus world attention on the iconic and unique Maine lobster. A vertically integrated operational structure from trap to table products places the previously underrated Maine lobster claw in a whole new light for today’s markets for both retail and food service.
Springing from the trusted L. L. Bean Maine family, and with the same initials in her name as her famous grandfather, Linda Lorraine Bean has achieved quick brand recognition for an iconic Maine seafood – its heavy claw lobster, homaus americanus.
Bean began her business in 2007, advocating for sustainable harvest practices and traceability to the source, and she started shipping her fishermen’s wild caught lobsters live to Walmart and other national retailers in 2008 with claw tags for brand identification, tracing each lobster to the Maine wharf where it was bought off the boat.
Now a respected dealer and vertically integrated processor in Rockland, the lobster capital of Maine, her supply of lobsters has risen from 400,000 pounds 5 years ago to 4 million pound today. She owns 5 waterfront buying stations and a 28,000 square foot processing plant. From mid-coast Maine where the cold water currents and rocky bottoms combine to elevate lobster quality to its highest level, Bean lobsters are of the highest quality available in the world, both for flavor and shipability.
Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster products are positioned for green and sustainable markets nationwide including supermarkets, club stores, national restaurant chains and independent restaurants. Her own lobster cafes and takeouts for her famed butter toasted lobster roll are located in Maine, Massachusetts, Florida and the US Virgin Islands, and will be opening in October at the Portland, Maine International Airport, under license to HMS Host. For more information about Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster™, please go to www.LindaBeansMaineLobster.com.
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