We do not desecrate the dish by serving any other, neither salad nor dessert. We just eat crab Newburg. My friends rise from the table, wring my hand with deep feeling, and slip quietly and reverently away.
When we have crab meat to spare, I make a crab Newburg so superlative that I myself taste it in wonder, thinking, " Can it be I who has brought this noble thing into the world" ?