Crab Puff

Crab Puffs were puff pastries stuffed with living crabs, originating on^[1] the planet^[2] Mon Cala. They were eaten by the native Mon Calamari in order to celebrate Life Day,^[1] a galaxy-wide holiday of Wookiee culture celebrating family, joy, and harmony.^[3] Sometime before the publication of The Life Day Cookbook, which took place after its predecessor's release^[1] in 34 ABY,^[4] author Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs traveled to Mon Cala in order to fix his Sienar-Chall Utilipede Transport. While on the planet, he visited a watering hole where a Mon Calamari chef gave him the recipe for the dish. The recipe called for live crabs, but Tuggs preferred his crab deep-fried, so he would later publish a deep-fried variation in The Life Day Cookbook instead of the original.^[3]

Behind the scenes

In the current Star Wars canon, crab puffs were mentioned in the recipe book Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook, authored by Jenn Fujikawa and Marc Sumerak and published in 2021. The book includes an out-of-universe recipe for the puff-pastry. The ingredients are lumps of crab meat, garlic cloves, egg, mayonnaise, parmesan cheese, lemon juice, onion powder, paprika, salt, black pepper, bread crumbs, and parsley.^[1]

In the Star Wars Legends continuity, crab-stuffed creampuffs appeared in the tenth installment of John Whitman's Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear young reader series, The Doomsday Ship, published in 1998.^[5] They were pictured and appeared in the 2013 non-canon video game Star Wars: Tiny Death Star, developed by Disney Mobile. They were depicted as two buns with white filling sandwiched in-between and were served in the "Mon Cala Seafood" food level in the Death Star I battle station. They cost 1,000 credits and took an hour and forty minutes to prepare.^[6]

Sources

• Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook (First mentioned)

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