Nathalia Goncharova (1881 – 1962), Nature morte au homard, 1909 – 1910, 73 x 88,1 cm, Centre Pompidou Dear Crustaceans, It is with great...

Eugène Delacroix, Nature morte au homard et trophées de chasse et de pêche, Salon of 1827, 80 x 106 cm, Louvre Dear crustaceans, This article marks the first of a series aimed at understanding our favourite decapod through art history. There hardly seems a more apt way to make a memorable first impression than by championing the Anglo-French relations which are so dear to the magazine’s editors. And so we come to Delacroix… Like the lobster itself, Delacroix’s paintings are

Have you ever wondered why lobsters are commonly associated with wealth? We certainly have. Why is it that in Hemingway's A Moveable Feast , the narrator enjoys a meal of lobster with mayonnaise rather than tinned sardines with his cold glass of white wine? Presumably, the abundance of lobsters in The Great Gatsby adds to the opulence and excess of the Jazz Age elite and the parties may have seemed less alluring to readers had the culinary scene been populated by leek and po