A whole deep fried soft shell crab on a roll with mayonnaise - Lauripatterson/Getty Images Soft shell crabs are a remarkable dining experience. Unlike regular old hard shell crabs, you can eat soft ...

This chef-favorite seasonal crab can be fried, grilled, and sautéed easily at home. The best part? You can eat the shell. Matt Taylor-Gross / Food Styling by Barrett Washburne Summer, sun, and ...

Eating soft-shell crab is like devouring a magic trick from the sea. Blue crabs are harvested at their transitional stage, when the skin is paper soft. As a result, there is no labor involved, no ...

The soft-shell crab, which has not merely shed its exoskeleton, but energetically sucked up so much water that its bloated body cracked its container, is a vulnerable creature. So vulnerable, in fact, ...

Crab is one of the ultimate warm weather foods: special enough to transport you, but casual enough to be eaten messily with both hands and a side of cold beer. For the more elegant among us, crabcakes ...

They typically start to appear in restaurants in the springtime — fried on sandwiches, pressed into tacos, rolled tight into sushi. Many chefs are eager to get them in stock to be proudly rattled off ...

The blue crab is one of our region’s culinary calling cards and turns up in dishes like Crab Imperial, Crab Norfolk and She Crab Soup. But one of the most revered forms is soft shell crabs, a seasonal ...

It’s a most magical time of year, early spring, when Mother Nature begins waking up all around us. We can see it in early crops like asparagus and strawberries, and in seafood markets with plump ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X It’s a most magical time of year, early spring, when Mother Nature begins waking up all around us.