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...Consider the Lobster" Gourmet August...
...Sending Wallace to the Maine Lobster Festival to write a straight food piece was a bit naive - like sending Hunter Thompson to Las Vegas and expecting a few paragraphs about hotel amenities. Wallace attended the festival, but instead of writing about lobsters as food he mused about them as living beings in a piece that, after some entertaining diversions through marine biology and colonial history, asks, "a question that's all but unavoidable at the World's Largest Lobster Cooker, and may arise in kitchens across the U.S.: Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just...
...cheery worldview, but it was honest. He ate meat but realized, in his essay "Consider the Lobster," that if a crustacean is trying to claw its way out of a pot of boiling water, you are cold-blooded murderer when you eat it. In the 150th anniversary issue of The Atlantic last year, he nihilistically stated an unpopular truth about liberty: The cost of freedom is that you have to occasionally let 3,000 people die in terrorist attacks. His 1999 collection of short stories, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - which John Krasinski has adapted into a movie...
Indeed, severe hypoxia, as scientists refer to the phenomenon, has been linked to the collapse of fisheries in the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea (which has since recovered) and a lobster fishery in the Kattegat, a patch of the North Sea between Denmark and Sweden. Other headline examples exist as well, but, more often, hypoxic waters have a relatively subtle impact on fish. "Most of the effects of low oxygen on fish stocks are what we call 'sub-lethal,' " says Diaz. "It doesn't kill the fish but stresses them. It affects their growth, it reduces their reproductive output...
...dollar with increasingly imaginative food - and the global trend toward smokeless venues is creating pleasant environments in which to savor it. In Singapore, a cluster of gastrobars, as they're called, are becoming dining destinations in their own right, dishing out the likes of o-toro sashimi and Boston lobster to famished partygoers...