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Photo Credit: Brass Heart Restaurant via Facebook Anyone can create yummy recipes with live Dungeness crab. From traditional crab cakes to fancy crab cake spinoffs, from delectable seafood salads to soothing soups and dips, and of course you can roast, grill, steam, boil, and fry crab. Dungeness crab can make such simple and easy meals for the whole family. But what about using live Dungeness crab to create something one-of-a-kind? That is exactly what Chef Brandon Gross did when he ordered a box of live Dungeness crab from Fathom Seafood.  Brandon Gross is an executive chef for the Columbia Country...

Guest Author: Chris King   In  quarantine we've had to get creative with both food and the company of people. For starters, food producers and grocery stores have had to pivot their businesses to a world where a store full of customers isn't an option anymore. With people we've also had to become extra cautious. Even if our family isn't in a high risk group, many of us have grand-parents and other elderly around us that are.   Even in the midst of a pandemic, as creative solutions for food delivery have been on the rise out of necessity, we've still...

This is the Fishing Vessel, Taryn Rose. They fish up and down the Oregon coast bringing in the best and freshest Dungeness Crab. A boat like this can bring 30,000 pounds of crab at a time and that is such a sight to behold! The Captain Stuart Schuttpelv has been a crabber all his life and you can say he's got the sea flowing through his veins. Nothing stops his tough crew of 4 when it comes to getting the daily catch of Dungeness Crab at all hours of day or night. It is Fathom Seafood's cooperation with crews like...

Anything Cajun has a surprisingly long history--and it doesn’t start here in the United States. Many seafood dishes have been inspired by Cajun spices and traditions.  The term ‘Cajun’ comes from the term ‘Acadian.’ In the early 1600s, a group of people in France migrated from (with high hopes of land and independence), to North America where they inhabited the colony of Acadia. This area is now known as the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. From there, they didn’t exactly migrate...they were exiled due to their resistance to authority--AKA the British Crown, in...