She Crab Soup at the Wharf

I love southern food. Sure I am probably biased being from South Carolina. But I love southern food. And I’m not talking fry everything up and call it done – although I do enjoy some fried food. But since I have been back in the southeast, I have enjoyed mounds of okra (cooked Linda-style), collards, grits, biscuits, sweet tea, and as of Saturday I finally got some of my favorite soup in the world – She Crab Soup. What a blessed event – LOL

For those of you who have never had any, I suggest you look for a place that has it and give it a whirl. You need to make sure they make it with a little sherry in it, or it just isn’t the same. And yes, it is made with she crabs, not he crabs. Part of what gives the soup its rosy tint is the crab roe in the soup. Charleston, SC is the home of she crab soup, and probably one of my favorite cities to eat. Oh the wonderful low country cooking they have there, my mouth is drooling just thinking about it.

Tammy was visiting again from Myrtle Beach and we spent the day in Old Town Alexandria perusing the stores and stopped in this little restaurant called the Wharf down near the waterfront and split a half bottle of Pinto Noir, some steamed clams with garlic & tomatoes, corn-crusted fried oysters with blue crab succotash. YUM! And the finale were big bowls of She Crab Soup. What a fabulous day!