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The Crab Cookbook

From the author of the best-selling The Official Crab Eater’s Guide and A Guide to Chesapeake Seafood Dining/ Bayside Views to Dine By, comes The Crab Cookbook, a wonderful collection of hundreds of delicious and elegant ways to prepare crab. There are recipes for every variety of crab you may want to serve, from the popular blue crab, stone crab claws, Dungeness crab, to Alaskan king crab legs. The impressive array of memorable meals features entrees from formal grilled dinners to casual summer fare. Specialty dishes include: Crunchy crab nuggets; New Orleans crab; spread; Baltimore crab soup; G.W.’s she crab soup; Crab meat and cantaloupe salad; Chesapeake Bay crab salad; Maryland crab cakes; Oyster House Road crab cakes; Deale deviled crab; Northern Neck stuffed crab; Soft shell crabs with tarragon sauce; Spicy stuffed soft shell crab; Miles River crab imperial; Choptank crab fritters; Sizzling Dungeness crab legs.

Whitey Schmidt

Whitey Schmidt was the author of eleven books and countless magazine and newspaper articles dedicated to the Chesapeake Bay's unique cuisine. Schmidt also starred in Maryland Public Television's award-winning documentary Eatin' Crabs Chesapeake Style which can be seen at http://video.mpt.tv/video/1182496752/. Whitey was described by a writer for The Capital newspaper in Annapolis as “undoubtedly one of the great characters in the best sense of the word who make the Chesapeake Bay such a special place to live.”

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