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Top Crab Festivals   celebrate all things seafood-eating-crab with food, music, and coastal traditions. From Maryland's Chesapeake Crab & Beer Festival to Alaska's Kodiak Crab Festival, there are so many ways to taste this cuisine complemented by family-oriented shows. There will be crab menus, crab cooking competitions, and displays on sustainable fishing. Coastal towns usher into parades, local craft fairs, and community camaraderie. Whether away for some more seafood or tucked away in a festive summer getaway, these top crab festivals ascertain wonderful food and able memories at the water's edge. Let's get down into America's finest crab fest! Top Crab Festivals Crab and crab festivals for the seafood, and the coastal culture and culinary obsession attract food lovers, travelers, and locals actively. Crab eating-fest, dance, and drama at its best: crab-eating contests, crab cooking contests, crab races, and numerous maritime traditions. Here is an exhaustiv...

Food cravings represent an extreme desire to consume certain foods, often those with higher amounts of sugar, salt, and/or fat. Unlike hunger, which is a physical need placed on us to eat, cravings typically come from a psychological and emotional place. Knowing the science of food cravings can assist with managing them and making better food choices. The brain’s reward system is an integral part of food cravings. Eating food we enjoy produces a pleasure response due to dopamine release in the brain. If we enjoy our food or that we eat the food again, we further reinforce that behavior by now adding even more desire to eat that food in the future. The more we do it, the stronger the connection develops between that food and the emtional experience. Many food cravings are emotionally driven. Stress, sadness, boredom, and/or anxiety often lead to what is known as emotional eating. People often resort to comfort food — ice cream, chips, chocolate — not because they are hungry but simply...