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Is It True What They Say about Lobster?
October 21, 2014 | 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
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Lobsters as fertilizer? Children and prisoners forced to eat lobster? Apprentices refusing to eat lobster more than twice week? Renowned food historian Sandra Oliver returns to Old South Meeting House to set the record straight about one of the region’s most mythologized foods. Join us to hear about this crustacean’s folklore; then learn the real story of lobster as food in historical New England. Lobster bisque provided by Union Oyster House.
The doors open at 6:00pm for OSMH members and 6:15pm for the general public. Lobster bisque provided by Union Oyster House. Sales & signing of author’s most recent book, “Maine Home Cooking”, to follow lecture.
This program is made possible by funding from the Lowell Institute.
FREE and open to the public. Please register here.
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.