So terrified was I by a childhood viewing of “Jaws” that the sight of those rows of dagger-like teeth and cold, menacing eyes still manages, all these years later, to send a shiver down my spine. That the shark in question was in fact mechanical doesn’t make a bit of difference to my psyche, I promise. For the current issue of Gather, to capture the essence of the 1975 film about the titular beast that made one New England summer seriously scary for beachgoers, we whipped up a seafood “chum” cocktail. The spiced Clamato-based broth swimming with chunks of tender monkfish looks a lot like the bloody water strewn with chum to lure in the killer great white. Here, a clip with what may be the movie’s best line: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
