Mae's San Francisco Dungeness Crab Cioppino

Cioppino is properly a home dish, or not even a dish but a big, seasonal gesture that should last hours and stain shirts and leave fingers stinky for a day or more, even after frictional washing.Be sure to read John Birdsall's sublime celebration of San Francisco’s signature dish, cioppino in The Signal Things of San Francisco: Cioppino. Serves 3-4 [tasty-recipe id="1952"]For more on this dish, read John Birdsall's The Signal Things of San Francisco: CioppinoPhoto: Kimberley Hasselbrink