The Gospel of Andrew

Crabs is grand. Worldwide. I've eaten all the ones you can find in pretty much any market on five continents and several large islands.

They is best, fresh. Period.

After that, they just taste like so much wet cardboard. Horseradish and ketchup will only mask so much.

Gillian R. Barr writes: Steamed Maryland blue crabs are the best!

Callinectes sapidus, the one of which Gillian speaks, is brought to you straight from the Pleistocene (actually even earlier) by the Creator. It's available worldwide, unlike some of its more regional cousins, and also like them and a great many other things of Levitical prohibition (pulled pork, just to name one) is SIMPLY delicious.

So's is mud-bugs. And their bigger cousins, those Maine lobster thingies.

I, being of a slightly theologically conservative bent, think Leviticus is just a continuation of the list of things in the Garden God wanted to keep for himself.

Pig
Squid
Octopus
Sea-cucumber
Abalone
Oysters
Mussels
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Here endeth the lesson.....