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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2016-10-10 2:59 PM, wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:04:48 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:29:31 -0300, wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 21:49:41 -0500, Sqwertz >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:19:51 -0300, wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I haven't looked through the newest one, the two I have are an
>>>>>> original (lucky find in a used book store along with a Larousse
>>>>>> Gastronomique) and a 1964 edition.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just downloaded Larousse and opened it up to a random page:
>>>>>
>>>>> Larousse on Crab:
>>>>>
>>>>> To prepare
>>>>>
>>>>> To kill a live crab, stab it several times with a sharp metal
>>>>> skewer into the underside directly behind the eyes or centrally
>>>>> under the tail flap. If in doubt about the humane method, consult
>>>>> a fishmonger.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cook the crab by boiling it in salted water for 20-30 minutes,
>>>>> then drainand rinse under cold water...
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------
>>>>>
>>>>> Boil for 20-30 minutes?!?!? Is that a 30-pound crab? For
>>>>> dungeness crab, I steam for maybe 12 minutes. Definitely not
>>>>> boil it for 30 minutes!
>>>>>
>>>>> Kinda makes me skeptical about the rest of what he writes.
>>>>>
>>>>> -sw
>>>>
>>>> I don't cook with it, but if it was the usual European Dungeness
>>>> crab, it could indeed be huge. I bought it as a souvenir and also
>>>> a very nice, well used copy of Ma Beeton.
>>>
>>> There is no such thing as a European Dungeness crab.
>>
>> Isn't there a city by that name though that they may use for the crabs?
>>
>> Carol
>
> I suppose it is not surprising that again the US 'thinks' it is the
> only one - perhaps that is because the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from
> Plymouth where they catch Dungeness crabs?
>

I don't doubt that some of the Pilgrim fathers might have caught crabs.
Everything I have read or heard about Dungeness crabs is that they are
found in the Pacific northwest. According to Wikipedia, some have been
found in the Atlantic, in the south eastern US states, but not in
England. There are something like 850 species of crabs.