“Tell people they can eat the whole thing,” one of my colleagues urged me when I told her I planned to write about soft-shell crabs. If you love blue crabs but are daunted by all that cracking and ...

To cook crabs, you can put them in a sauce, boil them, add them to a soup, BBQ them - just to name a few. And don't worry, even if you catch a bucket full of crabs, cleaning them is quick and easy.

Southerners love crabs—and we have plenty of delicious crab recipes to prove it. From crab cakes to claws to legs to salad, we can't get enough of this delicate, luxurious seafood. But when it comes ...