These squat patties, which won gold at the 30th annual Seafood & Sips crab cake cook-off, have lots of surface area for crisping in the skillet. Dungeness crabs are about 25 percent meat by weight ...

It’s the favorite time of winter for everybody who loves ripping apart sea bugs and dunking them in melted butter: the Mendocino Seafood & Sips festival, which this year runs from Jan. 24-Feb. 2.