Consider The Lobster

Consider The Lobster

Paper 1; Consider the Lobster
“Consider the Lobster”, a magazine article written by David Foster Wallace, published in Gourmet, is an article about the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival which takes place every year in the states midcoast region near Penobscot Bay(50).   This area of Maine is famous for its lobster, with lobster fishing being the area’s main industry.   Besides lobster the area also is a large tourist attraction, with tourism being the area’s number two industry.   The area is well liked for its warm but not hot summers that attract tourists from all over and of course the lobster festival which took place in early August for the 2003 year.   That year’s paid attendance was somewhere over 80,000(50).
People of course come to the lobster festival to eat lobster but each year there are several other attraction as well, which for that year were:
Concerts by Lee Ann Womack and Orleans, annual Maine Sea Goddess beauty pageant, Saturday’s big parade, Sunday’s William G. Atwood Memorial Crate Race, annual Amateur Cooking Completion, carnival rides and midway attractions and food booths and the MLF’s Main eating tent.(Wallace 50)
Even with all these other things to do, as I mentioned before, lobster is the main attraction. Each year around 25,000 pounds of fresh caught lobster is cooked in the “World’s largest lobster cooker” (Wallace 50).   Those 25,000 pounds only accounts for the lobster that is cooked in that one giant pot.   There are dozens of other booths with a lot of other lobster based treats, lobster rolls, turnovers, ravioli etc…, for the masses to taste and of course there are lots of souvenir shops sprinkled in the festival as well.
In the article David Wallace describes   lobster in detail, telling us that the lobster is part of the marine crustacean from the family of Homaridae, that have five pairs of legs which the claws are counted as, the legs also have their gills on them, they have stalk eyes and antennae(Wallace 55).   Lobsters are both...