For dinner, whole Dungeness crab ($72) is cooked in the restaurant’s wood-fired outdoor oven. The head meat is used for a refreshing crab salad, which is then placed back inside the empty shell ...

When I was growing up in California, my grandmother, a fantastic cook, would prepare Saturday ... she’d found reasonably priced Dungeness crabs, and she’d be steaming them for dinner.

Fresh crabs should feel heavy ... soft-shells and deep-fried for eating whole. The Blue crab is popular along the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Dungeness crab - this can reach up to ...

One minute to go until the start of Dungeness crab season ... “Traditionally, this whole coast has been crab and salmon,” Day said. With California’s struggling salmon fishery shut down ...