Ode to crab

How do you eat your crab? Store-bought crab-leg crackers and picks or just your teeth and jaws with a dactyl ripped from the end of a crab leg? Do you crack open the crab, dig out the meat and place it in your mouth, fingers dripping with butter and garlic, or do you make a pile of meat and then eat it all at once with a fork?

Are newspapers strewn all over the dining room table to catch the mess a tradition in your family?

Do you buy it cooked, cleaned and ready to go or do you toss a crab into the well-salted boiling water yourself, clean and eat hot morsels of crab flesh, unable to wait unt...