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Crab-Picking 101

Not a Maryland native like us? You might need some tips on how to tackle our home state’s famous crustacean! Check out our video, made right at our original crab packing plant on Hoopers Island in the Chesapeake Bay – our crab pickers there have been expertly extracting meat for years!

Phillips Recipe CenterTry Shirley Phillips’ original crab cake recipe

A Maryland Legend

Try your hand at the original crab cake recipe first used at Phillips Crab House in Ocean City, MD, in 1956.

View the recipe
Do You Pick Like a Pro?

Learn how our professional crab pickers on Hoopers Island do it - perfect practice for your next visit to our Baltimore Crab Deck!

Learn to pick like a pro