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Spend enough time at Josephine's in Houston, and you may find 2026 F&W Best New Chef Lucas McKinney pulling up a chair to explain the best way to eat a hard shell blue crab. In this video, learn how to eat blue crab like a local and how this chef is celebrating Gulf Coast traditions.
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00:00you might as well enjoy get your hands dirty get a couple cocktails it's kind of really what
00:03josephine's is all about so when you're looking at it you have two sides of the crab and each side
00:08has two pieces of lump crab two claws and then the body in between break it in half whenever
00:13you're looking at the back of the crab there's sections so each section has bones in between
00:17and you just roll off each section this would be its jumbo lump section that's the best bite in the
00:22gulf and then as you go down you can just segment off each leg there's a little bit of meat
00:26inside
00:26of these right here but not too much and then when you come down to the claw if you do
00:30it right
00:30the claw will come right out you know that's a good pull right there and then delicious call me

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