Lobster rolls have become the cupcake of the sea

A pound of picked lobster meat, the sweet, plump, exquisite ambrosia we like to cradle in a buttery split bun, requires more labor and as many as six lobsters to produce – and it sold for as much as $45 wholesale this spring compared with $17 three years ago. Celebrated Red's Eats, close to the source in postcard-perfect Wiscasset, Maine, bills itself as the “World's Best Lobster Shack.”