Dutch still life paintings depicting oysters, herrings, crabs, bread, butter, beer, wine, excite the appetite and are objectionable for the exact same reasons as erotic paintings and sculptures, which excite sexual appetite, are objectionable: they stimulate the will and as such put an end to any aesthetic contemplation of the object.
— Native New Yawker, NYC In San Francisco, cracked crab, sourdough bread to tear apart and a bottle of white wine.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Shrimp-crab cake, bread salad, orecchiette with sausage, pan-fried Asian noodles with shrimp, blackened swordfish, roast chicken, rack of veal, seafood combo, cod, halibut, venison, sushi hand rolls, steamed chicken dumplings, all desserts.
The also-rans were not failures but each had a flaw: the zucchini flowers, stuffed with crab meat, breaded and fried francese-style, were overwhelmed by a too-assertive beurre blanc; goat cheese was a too-dominant player in the eggplant Napoleon; and the house salad sported a sherry vinaigrette that was unexpectedly creamy.
As the winter sun began its downward slide, I drove back to town to retrieve the crabs, some bread and two more bottles of wine, this time rosé.
When crabs are done, assemble sandwiches: bread, crab, tomato.
"Lots of crab, not much bread," he said, offering the standard words of praise for a proper Tampa devil crab.
They're stuffed with crab meat and bread crumbs, and put any mere crabcake to shame.
You spread the crab mixture on bread or, at Cervejaria, something that's more like Melba toast.
Brook trout stuffed with crab meat and bread crumbs ($19) is a classic diner preparation, but far more delicate, and with much more flavor.
