If you’ve eaten seafood salad, a California roll at a sushi restaurant, or frozen breaded fish, chances are high that you’ve eaten imitation crab. MarkGillow/Getty Images Even if you’ve never added ...

You might have seen imitation crab meat, sometimes called crab sticks or “krab,” stocked with other seafood at your local supermarket. There is also a good chance you have eaten it and perhaps didn’t ...

Back when my wife Caron and I were engaged, she volunteered some startling information about herself: She makes her seafood salad with fake crab. “You need the imitation crab meat to make a good ...