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17th Annual Redondo Beach Lobster Festival: Sept. 21 – 23, 2012

It’s that time of the year when our collective thoughts turn to…..lobster.

The homely lobster has had its share of ups and downs. Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, when New Yorkers and Bostonians developed a taste for it, lobster was considered a sign of poverty or as a food for indentured servants or lower members of society in Maine, Massachusetts and the Canadian Maritimes, and servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice per week! (Read More)