Our goal was to come up with the best possible crab cakes—sweet, plump meat delicately seasoned and seamlessly held together with a binder that didn’t detract from the seafood flavor—regardless of whether we were starting with fresh crabmeat. Because it’s a given that the best crab cakes are made with meat that’s just been picked from the shell, but fresh crabmeat can be hard to find. Learn all of the details and discoveries for our Crab Cakes recipe in this online cooking class.