Apparently, increasingly sustainable fishing techniques mixed with a bumper crop this year and made Maine's lobster haul huge. Meanwhile, a recession reduced demand for luxury foods like lobster. The result, apparently, has been extremely cheap lobster. This weekend, The New York Times did a story on all this cheap lobster, and the basic takeaway is GO BUY LOBSTER NOW SALE DELICIOUS! Be interesting to see what prices looked like the day before the article came out, and what they look like this week. What's the size of the Times' effect? Related: Gourmet Magazine has been kind enough to put up David Foster Wallace's seminal essay Consider the Lobster.
