Imagine yourself sitting in a crowded beachside restaurant, the aroma of charbroiled seafood filling the air and growling your stomach. Your meal arrives, topped with a golden brown, crunchy ...

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 ...

Soft-shell crab is a regional favorite this time of year, but those tasty, Crispy Soft-Shell Crab Sandwiches don’t just magically appear in the kitchen of your favorite beachside diner. Just like ...

Delicate soft-shell crabs, a sign of the season, are available now at Euclid Fish Co., Heinen’s and other markets having fish departments. Like asparagus, rhubarb and ramps, their season is a short ...

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 ...

The soft-shell crab is a magic trick of nature – a springtime miracle in which the Chesapeake blues turn so tender you can cut a lightly fried jumbo with a fork. Rather than knuckle down to a ...

The last two weeks of April are filled with anticipation for seafood mongers, chefs and foodies alike. Trolling the waters around the North Carolina coast, fishermen are hoping to see the signs of ...

What is a soft-shell crab? It's an ordinary blue crab that has shed its hard outer shell during the normal process of seasonal growth. The crabs have an entirely different taste when they are in this ...

Soft shell crabs typically hit the market near the start of April, but like seemingly everything in 2020, the season for the Mid-Atlantic favorite hit a snag. An unseasonably cold spring caused ...

Will Judd is something of an eating Olympian. Not so much a competitive eater in a speed sense, the local engineer is more of a feats of strength eater. He tends to challenge himself to endurance ...

Soft shell crabs are a remarkable dining experience. Unlike regular old hard shell crabs, you can eat soft shell crabs whole, chowing down on the shell and all. If you've never tried soft-shell crab ...