As stated before, we try to avoid contrived food holidays like they’re a salmonella-tainted slab of tempeh. But today’s designation as National Escargot Day has us a little intrigued. Not so much that ...

What a bunch of slimeballs! In just the latest major theft of a French national treasure, bandits slipped into a famous snail farm in northern France and snatched nearly 1,000 pounds of escargot worth ...

Taylor Knapp’s snails are like the Wagyu beef of escargot. Just as the cows for the famed Japanese delicacy are pampered and massaged before being turned into the world’s most coveted steaks, Knapp’s ...

More than 200 snails have been rescued from their fate as a French delicacy thanks to a gastropod enthusiast. Connor Bouttell received the shelled creatures in the post after learning they were ...

Food quality (including fresh locally grown food) has become ever more important especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Consumers are more stringent on how and where their food is grown as well ...

According to Robert Nordseick, mollusk expert and writer of Mollusks.at, the French eat 40,000 tons of snails per year, most of which are "Cornu aspersum" snails. Throughout the world, however, many ...

CUTCHOGUE, N.Y. — Life on the nation’s only USDA-certified snail farm is, as one might imagine, pretty slow. And quiet. And small, with the entire farm contained within one 300-square-foot greenhouse ...

An Irish escargots farmer who teamed up with Diageo to produce a once-off special 'snail beer' is hoping to get a processing plant up and running on his Cavan farm next year. Peter Monaghan's ...