Aunt Jemima trained, but the pure thing will carry you through a day's work, I am sure. I've seen this gone through on TV briefly, some years back since. IOW, we have no idea what evidence lies under the sands at the confluences of these streams, what cities perhaps. Their village descendants at the Oases in the Libyan desert indicate the water still moves. My lobster feeds have been in boat club or church halls where you sit at trestle tables and gorge away.
Steamed clams are a necessary beginning.
There are a sort of lobster in the eastern Mediterranean and I would suppose that the Greek islanders would have been expert at this.