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Sandy Oliver: Is It True What They Say About Lobster?

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With support from: Lowell Institute
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Lobsters as fertilizer? Children and prisoners forced to eat lobster? Apprentices refusing to eat lobster more than twice a week? Renowned food historian **Sandy Oliver** returns to Old South Meeting House to set the record straight about one of the region’s most mythologized foods.

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From her 19th Century island farmhouse home on Islesboro, Maine, prize-winning food historian, contemporary food essayist, and freelance writer Sandy Oliver writes a weekly newspaper column, contributes frequently to magazines, travels widely as a nationally sought-after speaker, panelist, and food expert, writes books, gardens organically, cooks, and lives sustainably.
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