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(Toxic) Shrimp Cocktail
Posted on August 29, 2008
Ask any Marylander when you're born and raised there, the Chesapeake Bay is a big deal. It's a part of who you are. And I am no exception. As a kid at my grandparents' house on Irish Creek a little inlet of the Bay I would spend hours chicken-necking for Maryland blue crabs an appropriately named process, as it involves dangling chicken necks into the water from a piece of twine and waiting for crabs to pinch at the bait so you can swoop them up with a net. At nine years old, I remember the pride on my dad's face when I single-handedly caught three and a half do...
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