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From peasant fodder to posh fare: how snails and oysters became luxury foods

Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein. Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a garden ...
Food & Wine

This Sustainable Protein Has Less Sodium Than Beef and a Smaller Carbon Footprint

Escargot may be synonymous with French cuisine, but the delicacy is having a renaissance in Vienna. Erik Trinidad is a food and travel writer and videographer. He's contributed to National Geographic ...
Philadelphia Magazine

How This Philly Chef Is Proving Snails Are a Real Greek Classic

Drawing on his family’s foraging traditions, Stina’s chef Bobby Saritsoglou is showing Philly there’s more to Greek food than lamb and gyros.
AOL

Why more people are eating snails as a protein-rich alternative to red meat

In the sun-baked fields of central Tunisia, a growing number of unemployed young men are turning to an unlikely source of income: snail hunting. With traditional job opportunities scarce and food ...
Newsday

In Tunisia, snails inch toward replacing red meat as people turn to cheaper protein

AKOUDA, Tunisia — In fields outside their hometown in central Tunisia, an increasing number of unemployed young men are seeking a new way to make a living, picking snails off of rocks and leaves and ...
Seattle Times

Homegrown snails are your garden’s most unlikely by-product

If you have a worm bin at home, you understand the efficiency of invertebrates. A healthy colony of red wrigglers can eat their collective weight every day, recycling your kitchen scraps into worm ...