NOW IS the time of year when blue crabs come out of their shells and steal the spotlight from their colder-weather counterparts. A seasonal delicacy, soft-shell crabs are the low-waste crustacean, ...

Happy New Year, newcomers! Welcome to our fine City by the Bay, where lemons grow on trees and fresh Dungeness crab is our favorite winter treat. San Francisco being the destination city it is, we're ...

Call it the battle of the soft-shell crab. Quinn Hatfield, chef and co-owner of Hatfield’s, didn’t want them on his menu -- they’re best eaten simply, he thought, and he knew that they’d be so popular ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON — The local crab season is heating up, and fishmonger Danny Greenbaum says it’s going to be a great year for the beautiful Bay-area blues. “The water has been a little bit warmer so they’re ...

Scientists called for humane ways to handle crabs, lobsters, and other shellfish in the kitchen after showing for the first time that crustaceans indeed feel pain. Boiling lobsters and crabs alive has ...

chilled shrimp cocktail with sauce and lemons - Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Grilling shrimp allows you to impart more flavor strictly from the charring of the shrimp and the smoke of the grill ...

to eat before the evening’s activities begin and appeal to the majority of the victims, I mean family members. burgers and, yes, one round of EZ. Breck has pulled off tacos and breakfast for dinner ...