Lobsters and soft-shell crabs. In our part of the world, they spell "summer." But how do you know how to buy the best?

We're veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough. We've written over three dozen cookbooks and hundreds of magazine articles and columns. We've developed over 12,000 original recipes in our career. And yes, a few of them have been about lobsters and soft-shell crabs! You might want to check some of them out in our 900-recipe tome, THE ULTIMATE COOK BOOK.

Join us as we talk about how to buy the best. And then listen to the finale for the third season of our podcast. We're going on hiatus and revamping the show. When we return, we'll have more live cooking shows, more interviews with new authors, and a new feature you won't want to miss: the taste test.

Thanks for spending time with us. Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK:

[02:42] All about choosing and cooking lobsters.

[13:50] All about choosing and cooking soft-shell crabs.