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Turks and Caicos Brings Back the Lobster Meat This Weekend

Maine isn’t the only place in the world going lobster crazy this weekend. Starting tomorrow, lobster season is officially on in everyone’s favorite posh Caribbean paradise, Turks and Caicos.

Chefs here are famous for their spiny lobster dishes—cooked in nearly every style imaginable--but lobster season, which runs from August 1 to March 31, is strictly enforced. (Locals are serious about protecting this prized resource – after all, the lobster appears on their flag.) So if you ordered a lobster paella there in recent months and were sorely disappointed, it’s because it probably had been in the freezer for four months.

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