September might just be the most splendid month for travel – and the past three weeks on the Jersey Shore lived up to our expectations, and then some.
We hit Mud City Crab Shack in Manahawkin (yes, one of the many parts of the Jersey shore and marshlands that were seriously damaged during last year’s hurricane). Here we enjoyed definitive crab cakes, crab cakes so utterly packed with huge chunks of lump crab meat that there was almost no room left for seasonings and gravitational forces. Major crab cakes, moist inside, crisp on the outside—served with luscious, sweet crispy slaw.
Plantation, on Long Beach Island, seduced us 
with locally-caught sea scallops. The kind we can only fantasize about on the West Coast.
