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| The Crab Claw Restuarant 304 Mill St at Navy Point St Michaels, MD |
When everything in your childhood centered around amazing food, you can't help but grow into an adult whose entire life is measured by meals. The only truly wonderful summers of my childhood, for instance, were spent gorging myself on so many variations of crepe forced upon me at breakfast, lunch, and dinner that the very word crepe became a four-letter word not to be repeated until the smorgasbord francaise of the summer before was a blissfully fantasized memory.
My love of my Floridian beach hometown is likewise etched into my memory by fantastic feasts alongside friends and family--4th of July bbqs, elaborate dinner parties, mango slushies on the beach, and a cold cut sub from the local sub shop (more Peruvian Sauce please!, a delicacy tucked safely away in my checked luggage every time I leave Florida for more than a few weeks).
And although I hold onto these food memories with a constant wish to relive them, my move to the Mid-Atlantic brings with it a new set of food adventures to salivate over. In the spirit of fully living my DC life, I happily tore apart my first mound of Maryland blue crabs this weekend--ripping, smashing, pulling, and tasting my way to bliss.
One dozen crabs piled high. Knives, hammers, forks, and wet wipes strewn across white butcher paper. The smell of a quintessential Chesapeake Bay summer town wafting through the air. A quick lesson in crab eating and several hours later, the pile of freshly cooked crabs reduced to unidentifiable shell parts. Another meal tucked away into my food-filled memory bank.
