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Ode to the Blue Crab

ince I was born in Maryland, it makes me a blue crab expert. It’s a fact. That probably sounds arrogant, but you won’t find me lecturing a Mainer about lobsters or a Cape Cod resident about fried big-belly clams. If you’ve spent time around the Chesapeake, you likely know that the blue crab is woven into every nook and cranny of our way of life. Well, it is in my simple, possibly

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