{"id":21927,"date":"2013-02-23T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=21927"},"modified":"2013-02-23T09:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T16:11:57","slug":"dungeness-crabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2013\/02\/23\/dungeness-crabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeness crabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Fisherman’s Wharf, SF.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Live and awaiting purchase.<\/p>\n

These were absent from stores over Christmas owing to a fishermen’s strike, but now are to be found aplenty. They run $10\/lb. cooked in the shell or $32\/lb. for the meat only, suggesting a yield of only about 30%. The shells are thick, heavy and very beautiful. Dip in some molten butter, add a nice Chardonnay and you have an excellent light dinner.<\/p>\n

Though Fisherman’s Wharf has the most awful – and richly deserved – reputation as a tourist trap, replete with T shirt vendors and the like, there is some excellent seafood to be had there, fresh from the Bay.<\/p>\n

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The cook at Alioto’s, above, is boiling fresh lobster and crab on the sidewalk, for all to see.<\/p>\n

Down the road Capurro’s provides a traditional oak interior where you can enjoy the catch of the day, chalked up on the board for all to see.<\/p>\n

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The bar, with a couple of local brews on tap, is in context:<\/p>\n

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And there’s no arguing with this simple message:<\/p>\n

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All on the Nikon D3x, 16-35 AF-S G at f\/4 except the last on the pre-Ai 135mm f\/3.5 on the D700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Fisherman’s Wharf, SF. Live and awaiting purchase. These were absent from stores over Christmas owing to a fishermen’s strike, but now are to be found aplenty. They run $10\/lb. cooked in the shell or $32\/lb. for the meat only, suggesting a yield of only about 30%. The shells are thick, heavy and very beautiful. … Continue reading Dungeness crabs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21927"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25247,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927\/revisions\/25247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}