Cooking crabs is not rocket science, but how you care for them and handle them can be the difference between a great meal and maybe a trip to the emergency room. Never cook a dead crab. If in doubt, ...

Crab is one of the most popular seafood delicacies around the world, prized for its tender, sweet meat. But for newcomers, eating crab can feel more like a puzzle than a meal. Between the shells, the ...

All this week we’ve brought you the series “Claws and Effect,” a deep dive on the crabs of the Chesapeake Bay, taking a look at crabs and the crab industry in its present iteration and in the future.

To view a slideshow from the Rustic Inn, click here. Fenton Stanley Ridgeway III hunches over a stack of Maryland-style blue crabs at Riggins Crabhouse in Lantana. He’s dismantling the crabs like a ...