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Ben Conniff, co-owner of Luke's Lobster in NYC, expresses his admiration for the chefs competing in the Maine Lobster Chef of the Year and Top of the Crop challenges in a report on last week's food and wine festival for Food Republic. "I have never seen a state more fiercely committed to using local ingredients, which says a lot when your growing season is cut short by frost." [FR]