What is soft-shell crab?
It is soft-shell crab season at Mr. P’s and the demand for this delicatessen is higher than ever. As much as we love them, we’ve found that most people don’t know how or why the crab’s shell is soft. A soft-shell crab is just a regular crab – in our area it is most typically a blue crab – that has gotten too big for its current shell (exoskeleton) and must shed the shell and grow a new one (a process called molting). A few weeks prior to the molting process, the crab begins t
