There was somethingdelicious about taking a Boston Red Sox player and funding his tech startup so that it would bring hundreds of jobs across state lines.
It was about taking what little you had or could afford and turning it into somethingdelicious without interfering with the grim necessities of work and survival.
In so doing, New York and London may have destroyed something far more than a delicious source of protein: oysters are not only among the strangest and tastiest creatures in the sea, but as far as the health of marine ecosystems go, they may also be the most important.