Wait a Crab Picking Minute

Marylanders Have Been Doing it Wrong All This Time?

Heather Jauquet

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Photo by alvin matthews on Unsplash

It’s summer time in Maryland and it can only mean one thing. Its time to pick crabs. I haven’t always been a Marylander, but this has been my home for almost 30 years.

Twenty years ago I married a Baltimore man, and one of the first things I had to learn was how to pick crabs. I’ve had to do it on my own…

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Heather Jauquet

Writer. Wife. Mom. Runner. Crocheter. Cancer patient in a pandemic.