1931 Cuban Cookery by Blanche Z de Baralt

SHELL FISH MORO CRABS If there is one thing for which Havana has a well founded reputation, it is certainly for its moro crabs (not Morro like the Morro Castle, if you please, but moro, meaning Moorish). They are simply insuperable. There are many ways of cooking them, but after all has been said, no way is better than just plain as Nature made them. Only, to pick over crabs at the table is a most inelegant operation