Crabbing your way to a fine catch

A day at sea lets Dungeness-lovers stock the freezers

Before my outing, I, too, was apprehensive about frozen crab. For years I have assiduously purchased only live crab and cooked it myself, so the idea of filling up my freezer with something I considered an inferior product wasn’t very appealing. I would never buy a frozen crab, nor would I normally freeze a crab I had cooked — I’d eat it up, and buy more when I wanted it.However, this was different. My ancient hunter-gatherer genes had kicked in, and these were my own, hand-caught crabs, wrested from the deep, still dripping ocean water when we cooked them. That is a pretty irresistible provenance.