Mallet,
Please Teaching your child
how to eat crabs
STORY BY JESSICA GREGG | PHOTOS BY DAVID STUCK
Chef Nancy Longo
wears a crab tiara that
her friends gave her.

The first thing that first-time crab
eaters need to know is to take their
time, says Chef Nancy Longo, owner
of Pierpoint Restaurant in Fells Point
and a cooking instructor who has
been leading summer classes for
kids for close to two decades.

Crabs are a social food, a mealtime
favorite when the temperature
is high and the humidity higher.

Don’t rush, she says. And don’t get
discouraged. “Keep picking because
you’ll eventually get it right.”
Here are Longo’s 10 steps for new
crustacean consumers.

1 Cover your table in
newspapers or brown
paper. Paper grocery
bags split open and
laid flat will work as
well. Assemble crab
mallets. “Start feeling
around the pile for the
heaviest crab,” Longo
jokes. 32 WashingtonFAMILY JULY 2019