the.com/she crab
a bisque so rich the crab needed her own soup naming rights.
means a creamy she-crab soup made rich with crab roe, cream, and sherry, traditionally using female blue crabs for their orange eggs.
from a lowcountry charleston dish dating to the early 1900s, popularized when a cook for mayor r goodwyn rhett added crab roe to a basic crab soup to impress president william howard taft.
named forfemale crabs whose roe colors and thickens it
secret ingredientdry sherry stirred in tableside
roe substitutecrumbled egg yolk mimics roe when scarce
for instance
husk restaurant — charleston kitchen serving a modernized version
south carolina state soup — unofficially claimed as the state's signature dish