Summer means blue crab season in Baltimore, which locals celebrate with generously packed crab cakes. These are the best ...

I lived on the southern Oregon coast for a few years and during crab season, some of my best friends and I would enjoy fresh caught Dungeness crab — like, hours-out-of-the-ocean fresh. We’d ...

To find out how to whip up an easy sauce that pairs with savory crab cakes, Food Republic talked with Chef Blackwell Smith, founder of Lucky Cajun.

Broiled crab cakes are lower in fat and healthier. Meat from any species of crab may be used, although the meat of the blue crab, whose native habitat includes the Chesapeake Bay, is traditional.

The menu says that Whitlow's broiled crab cakes are made with Phillips jumbo lumps, which are from Indonesian crabs and pasteurized. The lumps are jumbo, and there is little discernible stretcher.

Old Bay doesn't take over the flavor of lump crab in broiled crab cakes ($16 for one), but rather the subtle salty seasoning acts as a backdrop to ocean fresh flavor.

Crab cakes tend to be plumpest starting in September, when harvested Maryland blue crabs are their biggest. Options include simply-plated ... and customers can order the crab cake as a sandwich or as ...