A Post-Thanksgiving Crab Crack

Cookbook authors Matt Lee and Ted Lee invite you to try their favorite holiday tradition: a Lowcountry crab party with friends.

Standing around the makeshift plywood table, they roll up their sleeves and cheerfully dive into a pile of cooked crabs.
Photographer Tara Sgroi

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Later, more of Matt and Ted’s friends drop in, but there’s still plenty of food and samples of Tom’s house wine, made from last year’s grape harvest. Standing around the makeshift plywood table, they roll up their sleeves and cheerfully dive into a pile of cooked crabs.

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Then there’s Dirty Rice—Matt and Ted’s must-have side dish—along with zesty carrot slaw, hearty hominy stew, and plum upside-down cake prepared in a cast-iron skillet.

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It’s not unusual for Ted and Matt to order upwards of 200 live blue crabs for their crab crack parties.

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Standing around the makeshift plywood table, they roll up their sleeves and cheerfully dive into a pile of cooked crabs.

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