Photos by J.C. Reid
Take me to your eater
For true seafood lovers, one of Mother Nature's greatest inventions
is undoubtedly the soft-shell crab. "Softies" are one of those rare
creatures that seem engineered specifically for human consumption.
For the uninitiated, a soft-shell crab is a crab that has just
molted (shed) its hard shell due to the growing process. Immediately
after molting, and for up to 48 hours thereafter, the "shell" of the
crab is soft and skin-like. During this time the
