How to Eat a Male Blue Crab

Blue Crab [Callinectes Sapidus = Calli(beautiful) + Nectes(swimmer) + Sapidus(savory)]
1. The crab is steamed and coated with bay seasoning
2. Stock the table with chilled long necks
3. Pick a crab and with a knife remove the male organ at the back of the crab
4. With your thumb (careful--this can hurt at times) crack open the crab and remove its gills (never eat the gills!!)
5. You then clean the insides and never ask too many questions if eating for the first time--just do it!!
6. Split the crab open and press it between your thumb & forefinger till you see the white meat
7. Grab that meat and take a swig at that cold beer
8. Relish the taste, lick your fingers to savour the seasoning and go to step 3 above--continue till your stomach is full or you end up hurting your fingers
I enjoyed it!!! If you love seafood, you will love the experience of eating Blue Crabs that are a speciality of the  Chesapeake Bay (Baltimore, MD)

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A day after diwali..

Oct 22nd, 2006 (Sunday). Listening to VH1 top 20 with Romir (Gobi) & Mansi. Yesterday was Romir's first Diwali. I really miss Benares during Diwali. The sweets, crackers, poojas & the starchy kurta payjama make me nostalgic. I wish I can vacation in India every Diwali-yeah, I agree its a dream!! How different it is while we live in Miami. Here we are sipping tea and listening to stupid & sexy Paris Hilton dropping off the VH1 music charts, where as in Benares, we would have been lsitening to bells ringing from a neighbouring temple & getting ready to perform the anookut pooja. Families are suppose to make 101 types of entress as offering for the gods. Since that was an impossible number, we prepared different types of vegetables that were available in the market and had 'kachauris' & 'pooris'--yummy. And now, 12 min after typing all this, Mansi calls out what we will have for breakfast and my answer--eggs and bread!

Introduction

Some random thoughts from a native of Benares.