{"id":25764,"date":"2025-09-03T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25764"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:51:47","slug":"going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/going-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e5e5e5&amp;d=september_2025&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=54&amp;themeSecondaryColor=%23f2f2f2&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">They eat green crabs, don\u2019t they? Yes! From Venice, Italy, to Portland, Maine.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">By Judson Vail<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cIs that a green crab?\u201d a woman in the next tide pool asks when she sees me with my catch. I confirm that it is and explain we\u2019re gathering a bunch of the invasive crustaceans to eat. She looks skeptical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">\u201cThere\u2019s a whole movement to turn them into food!\u201d I try to explain, as if I\u2019m part of some environmental-culinary revolution. \u201cTo help with the problem!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">\u201cWell,\u201d she says, still unconvinced. <em>\u201cBon app\u00e9tit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crabs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crabs.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crabs-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/crabs-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Crabs on the Menu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1499],"class_list":["post-25764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-september-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25769,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25764\/revisions\/25769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}