Besa Gordon visited Communion Restaurant & Bar in Seattle’s Central District in 2023 to speak with award-winning Chef Kristi Brown about her annual fish fry. Originating over twelve years ago, Brown shared that, for her, a fish fry is about bringing people together over some good old-fashioned Seattle soul food. With genuine surprise and excitement, Besa sat down to an entire table packed with Communion’s delectable offerings: a fish fry, a crab boil, and a fried chicken dinner.

Communion’s Chef Lynn gave Besa a tour of the crab boil, recounting childhood crabbing trips with her cousins from Des Moines Marina Pier all the way up to Port Angeles that inspired her own love of Dungeness crab. At the end of the day, they would gather all the crab, hot links, and shrimp to make a huge crab boil as a reward for their summer work.

Chef Lynn emphasizes that a crab boil is about creating "a whole pot of love" with family and friends. It is the energy and soul that comes from everyone eating together. The love put into her cooking, from seasoning the food until her “ancestors tell [you] to stop” to serving it up to perfection, makes for a truly rich and emotion culinary experience.

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