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- "The strange secret to this nautical nibble? The tiny crabs inside the puff were still alive! Personally, I tend to prefer a tasty bite that doesn't bite back, so I made my own deepfried variation. This one captures the flavors of the Mon Cala original but without the risk of any claws up in your craw."
- ―Strono Tuggs, The Life Day Cookbook
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]
Crab-stuffed creampuffs as depicted in Tiny Death Star
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 battlestation. They cost 1,000 credits and took an hour and forty minutes to prepare.[6]
Sources[]
- Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook (First mentioned)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook
- ↑ Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Life Day in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook establishes that the in-universe book was published at the same time as when the First Order was searching for the Resistance base on Batuu. As that search occurs in Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, which is set in 34 ABY according to the reasoning here, the cookbook must have been published in 34 ABY.
- ↑ Galaxy of Fear: The Doomsday Ship
- ↑ Star Wars: Tiny Death Star
