If you live near the Chesapeake Bay, this time of year offers up a tasty treat - steamed hardshell crabs, the kind Melvin Udall, Jack Nicholson’s character in As Good As It Gets, mentions during his time in Baltimore.Here’s a mid-summer picture of pleasure: You’re among family and friends gathered around a table covered with old newspapers. You have a few dozen hardshell crabs in front of you and plenty of beer iced up in a cooler nearby, and for the next hour or so in the most leisurely way possible, you pick crabs, drink beer, and shoot the breeze.
The mildly sweet crabmeat combined with the spicy hot seasoning is sooo delicious, and the beer and conversation become the perfect complement. For me, it’s as good as it gets.
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