Convenience foods have a horrible reputation, in most cases entirely justified. In the quest for ease, other attributes -- such as flavor -- get tossed willy-nilly by the wayside. But there is an ...

This chef-favorite seasonal crab can be fried, grilled, and sautéed easily at home. The best part? You can eat the shell. Summer, sun, and soft-shell crabs — few combinations are as simple and ...

When Victor Scargle tasted his first soft-shell crab back in 1995, it was at the behest of some more senior chefs he was working with in a New York City seafood restaurant. Then a young, up-and-coming ...

Tierney Plumb is an editor of Eater’s Northeast region, covering D.C., Boston, Philly, and New York. It’s almost last call for soft shell crabs, a Mid-Atlantic favorite that becomes available when ...

Soft-shell crab season has arrived. Every spring, mature crabs shed their old shells and start growing bigger ones. That natural process temporarily transforms them from hard-shell crustaceans that ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Fleet Landing's soft shell crab sandwich. Credit: Provided; Ilyn Brown The No. 1 rule of soft ...

On a recent Thursday night, I was sitting at a sidewalk table at Mayas restaurant, enjoying the artistically tattooed, lower Magazine Street crowd and internally debating the merits of the various ...

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 ...

Many nights, Trudy Luke is up all night monitoring her blue crabs. Producing soft-shell blue crabs is all about the timing — being ready to take a crab from the tank in the small window after it has ...

Last week, soft-shell crabs started busting out all over the place, and I mean that literally. Each spring, blue crabs pop out of their old shells and grow about 35 percent. In between that moment ...