Crab and Winter Vegetable Salad with Lemon, Herb and Mustard Dressing

Dressed crab is a time-consuming dish, whether you stuff the crabmeat back into its shell in the traditional manner or, as here, use the cooked meat separately. The care with which the meat is picked from the claws and cartilage determines whether the dish is a pleasure or an adventure, for nothing spoils the appetite more quickly than a mouth full of sharp shell.

Sadly, frozen crabmeat is a mediocre product and will not substitute for fresh. Similarly, the crab dressed with stale c