Keep things cool in these waning days of summer with chilly desserts. - World traveling sailors learn how to eat that Maryland delicacy, blue crabs.
- Burdick Chocolate in Walpole, New Hampshire, offers a line of politically oriented chocolates and candies, just in time for the conventions.
- Rob Kasper reviews an assortment of artisanal rums.
- Have pie for every meal at the Dangerously Delicious Savory House.
- Laura McCandlish reviews Arthur Schwartz's New York City Food: An Opinionated History and More Than 100 Legendary Recipes By Arthur Schwartz Stewart.
- What to do with self-rising flour? Make biscuits!
Posts with tag blue crabs
The Baltimore Sun in 60 seconds: Frozen desserts, blue crabs and rum
The WiseCracker

This is the WiseCracker. From the description over at Chef'n, it sounds like the jaws of life for crustaceans. Aside from having a claw cracker and meat pick on the handle, the business end of the WiseCracker is slid into crab shells and expanded, thus splitting the shells open. At least, that's what they say. It's a far cry from a wooden mallet and a nutcracker. It might be worth a try; Amazon has them for about $15. Still, I think part of the appeal of eating crabs, at least blue crabs, is the mess.
Top Four Most Romantic Meals: Nick's List

Breakfast in bed for no reason at all - I surprised my girlfriend one Sunday morning with a breakfast of griddle cakes with clotted cream and homemade Meyer lemon marmalade (above), sausages and orange juice. I'm not sure what made me get up early and decide to do it. I think, partly, it was because a large serving tray was left out on our counter from the night before and it just begged to have breakfast in bed served from it. (OK, so the marmalade was homemade, it just wasn't my home.)
[Photo: Nick Vagnoni]











