NY Times Takes a Curious Day Trip to Westport

The New York Times Sunday Metropolitan section features a curious “Day Trip” to Westport article headlined: “Literary Ghosts and Lobster Rolls (Hold the Mayo.)”  Written by freelance writer Julie Besonen (identified by Amazon as a University of Arkansas graduate, Fulbright Scholar to Belgium, and food editor of New York-based Paper magazine), the story devotes its first five paragraphs to the newly opened Match Burger Lobster on Riverside Avenue (“a breezy bistro.”) The only other culinary attraction mentioned out of Westport’s scores of restaurants: Saugatuck’s Black Duck Café (“their $11 martini may be the biggest on the Eastern seaboard.”) There is reference to the William F. Cribari Memorial Bridge and the fact F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived a summer on Compo Road South. And a mention of “gorgeous” sunsets at Compo Beach (described as “rocky and shell-studded.”) But there is little else that truly reflects Westport past and present. See the online version HERE. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo