FatManSeoul » obit http://www.fatmanseoul.com seoul food for people who love to eat Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Considering the Lobster . . . http://www.fatmanseoul.com/2008/09/16/considering-the-lobster/ http://www.fatmanseoul.com/2008/09/16/considering-the-lobster/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:08:28 +0000 fatmanseoul http://www.fatmanseoul.com/?p=336 Famed author and writer David Foster Wallace died this past Friday.  While he was known for a vast body of works including Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and Girl with Curious Hair, one of our favorite works here at FatManSeoul has always been his essay “Consider the Lobster” (영어 링크.)  The famed food magazine Gourmet sent Wallace to go cover the Maine Lobster Festival, and what they got in return was a remarkable and acute consideration of the ethics of the food we eat that has since become a must-read for anyone concerned about our relationship with the creatures we consume.

David Foster Wallace - image from Gourmet Magazine Online

David Foster Wallace - image from Gourmet Magazine Online

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