We renewed our aquaintance with a beloved food - Golden Crabs!

Golden Crabs are a Florida Keys specialty, fished for at amazing depths, 1,140 to 2,880 feet in the Gulf of Mexico north of the Florida Keys. Very similar to other crabs in taste I suppose, the meat is delicate and sweet. However, they are the hardest things to get into. A hammer does absolutely no good in this case! Under the hard shell there is a very thick membrane that doesn't smash but needs cut if one wants to make progress and not starve to death while eating.

So we gather our largest knives for this crab feast. A quick press down along the shell, not across the shell, and the crab leg can be pried into two halves easily and the delectable portion removed and transferred to the mouth after a quick bath in the butter! Yummm...

Though I have publically proclaimed that we have completed our studies of Greece, it seems Greece is not quite finished with us! Yesterday we discussed Archimedes Number, otherwise known as Pi and tonight the Greek story of The Golden Crab in The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang would go quite nicely with this dinner!