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These 4-Ingredient Crab Cakes Taste Like Summer Vacation
His Restaurants: Seabird and Zora's Market and Kitchen, both in Wilmington, N.C.
What he's known for: Co-owning a locally focused fine-dining seafood restaurant with his wife, Lydia Clopton. Inventing fresh, playful dishes that celebrate the abundance of North Carolina's waters.
A handful of ingredients is all it takes to make Dean Neff's crab cakes a winner. 'If you have excellent crab, you don't need fillers,' the chef said. He learned this lesson early, as a teenage cook in a seafood shack near Savannah, Ga.
