Crab Salad

There’s nothing like a good mayonnaise—homemade if possible—to hold crab together in a salad with other ingredients; but I’m always looking for ways to pare down fat without compromising taste, so we tend to have half mayonnaise-half yogurt dressings or sometimes just yogurt with a drizzle of olive oil.

Serve this salad as a first course or light lunch with lightly dressed greens, or as an hors d’oeuvre, with at least two big leaves per person of butter lettuce or another suitable v