| Richard J. King i takes us on a journey through the history, biology, cuisine and culture of lobsters, and its economic and environmental status worldwide. The author also explores the salacious lobster palaces of the 1920s, as well as the animal's thousand-year status as an aphrodisiac, and how it has inspired numerous artists, writers and thinkers including Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Dali and Woody Allen. |
