When it comes to fresh it is hard to beat ingredients that are alive 'till just before cooking. Along with clams and lobster, soft shell crabs are our favorite foods you can purchase live. While live ...

Make sure the crabs are fresh and, if possible, that they come from Maryland. You'll find soft-shell crabs in different sizes. Look for the crabs to be at least 2 1/2 to 3 ounces. If you can find ...

Father's Day is two days away. So chef Ed Brown, owner of the Manhatan eatery Eighty One, brought his sons, Alex and Harry, on The Early Show Friday to show how make a traditional summer dish of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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