It may seem strange to travel all the way to New York City to taste fresh Maine seafood. Last month chefs Lynette Mosher and her partner/husband Robert Krajewski, owners of Lily Bistro in Rockland, teamed up with their neighbor (the two restaurants share a common wall on Main Street), Keiko Suzuki Steinberger of Suzuki’s Sushi Bar to cook a Maine seafood dinner at the famed James Beard House in Greenwich Village.

It was well worth the trip.

How does someone create a new recipe?

In a given year, working on cookbooks, magazine articles, and this blog, I write hundreds of new recipes and am often asked a logical question: Where do my ideas come from?