RECIPES & IN DEPTH TUTORIALS
Explore the vast culinary potential of green crabs with diverse recipes and in-depth tutorials will full color photos. Shuck green crab meat like a pro, dazzle with caviar crab cakes or whip up an easy broth for your favorite recipes.
This book was a volunteer effort. Thank you to the chefs, artists, scientists and editors who made this possible.
Written & Edited by Mary Parks, Thanh Thái, and contributors. Cover by Anne Vetter.
PRESS
One way to fight invasive species? Eat them. - National Geographic
Meet a New Crab to Eat - New York Times
Green crabs are wreaking havoc on our coastal habitat. So let’s eat them - Boston Globe
From Menace to Moeche - Edible Boston
Green Crab Cakes - NBC’s Hub Today
A Summer Harvest of Maine Cookbooks - Portland Press Herald
'If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em.' Cooking up ideas for green crab cuisine - CBC
Green Crab Cookbook aims to develop culinary culture for invasive species - Seafood Source
EATING THE PROBLEM: New cookbook finds ways to put the green crab on the menu - Ipswich Chronicle
Time to chomp down on the threat - Wicked Local
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mary Parks has a background in sustainable fisheries, developing underutilized and invasive species and leading environmental compliance programs for commercial seafood companies. She hails from coastal Maine and first tried eating green crabs in 2005. Over a decade later, she helped found the Green Crab R&D Project and later Greencrab.org. Based in Cambridge, she now serves as Greencrab.org coordinator.
Thanh Thái is a family nurse practitioner living in coastal New Hampshire. When she’s not seeing patients, she can be found harvesting green crabs and developing recipes. Thanh runs the blog Green Crab Cafe, which explores the vast culinary potential of the invasive crab through diverse recipes and tutorials.
Photo by Roger Warner
RETAILERS
MAINE: HERITAGE SEAWEED (Portland), LAUDHOLM RESERVE (Wells), BATES COLLEGE STORE (Lewiston)
MASSACHUSETTS: HOOKED SEAFOOD SHOP & PORTER SQUARE BOOKS (Somerville), BU BOOKSTORE & TRIDENT BOOKSELLERS (Boston), MBL GIFT SHOP (Woods Hole)
NEW HAMPSHIRE: STOCK & SPICE (Portsmouth)
ONLINE: BARNES & NOBLE, AMAZON, EBAY, PORTER SQUARE BOOKS, THRIFT BOOKS
LIBRARIES
MASSACHUSETTS: IPSWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY (Ipswich), CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY (Cambridge)
ADDITIONAL PRESS
CBC: 'If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em.' Cooking up ideas for green crab cuisine
Seafood Source: Green Crab Cookbook aims to develop culinary culture for invasive species
Ipswich Chronicle: EATING THE PROBLEM: New cookbook finds ways to put the green crab on the menu
Wicked Local: Time to chomp down on the threat
Email maryparks@greencrab.org for wholesale pricing and additional information.