Crazy for Crab: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Fabulous Crab at Home

We gave up red meat about a year ago and have been experimenting with various types of sea food. Crab has to be one of our favorites. We've made many dishes from this book and all have been excellent. Easy to follow recipes, wonderful tips for selecting various types of crab. I highly recommend this little book! It's a real keeper!!

This is a fun book. Lots of recipes and some interesting scientific info as well on species and locations. Scads of full color photos and easy to make recipes covering all aspects of cooking. The bible of crab cookery.

I use this cookbook when ever my husband catches crab , which he does a lot.

Just what I needed for all the blue crabs I caught in S.C.

A veritable treasure trove of first class recipes. Thompson culls the best from the masters, including Louis Osteen's she crab soup (worth the price of the book) and the west coast's best seafood restaurants.

THIS IS OUTSTANDING! Have done several recipes, all a fine success, & look forward to more of the same. Love it, &since we get crabs every weekend during the season, my daughter-in-law have it out to use every weekend at the beach.Wonderful!

In what can only be considered a "love note" to all things crab, Fred Thompson has created an absolutely definitive guide for crab lovers everywhere. Beginning with what he calls "The Crab Basics", a discussion of the types of crab available as well as the various methods for selecting and storing crab products, and ending with a list of crab festivals around the country, "Crazy for Crab" offers something for even the most casual of crab fans.With twelve recipes for crab cakes alone (ranging from the basic to the very fancy - tarragon aioli anyone?), Thompson has more than covered the territory. Included are soup and appetizer recipes, as well as many for salads and casseroles. The level of involvement and difficulty for the recipes ranges from the very simple to the relatively complex and for every recipe the likes of Crab Imperial (that is, well known and fairly easy to track down) he includes another for a dish altogether more exotic and modern tasting - Thai crab cakes with chili-garlic sauce, for exampleFrom the everyday to the sublime, Thompson has covered it all. Augmented with discussions and recipes for bay seasoning and homemade tartar sauce, this comprehensive work is recommended for anyone who enjoys these sweet gifts from the sea.

This is an excellent cookbook on cooking crabs and things to go with them! If you ever traveled to Baltimore, MD... One of the things that usually got you was you could not find a DEFINITIVE cookbook on crabs... This book seems to be the ONE! Now if I could only just get a way to have more crabs coming to Nashville.... A wonderful cookbook! If you love crabs-why are you still reading this? Buy the Book, already!