Catching Dungeness crabs on the West Coast goes back a ways. Coast Salish tribes would wade through low tide to hunt crab, sometimes using a cedar-bark visor to fight the glare and deftly spear the prey. Genoan immigrants during the Gold Rush brought their tradition of cioppino — a boiling pot filled with crab and the rest […]
Tom Molanphy
Tom Molanphy is a Bay Area freelance journalist.
