My grandfather only spoke Lao, and I had lost the language — but with one dish, we shared so much.

Preheat oven to 400°F. Purée butter, garlic, parsley, and shallot in a food processor. Season with salt and pepper. Divide half the garlic butter among sterilized snail shells. Stuff with snails (1 ...

There is an undeniable culinary phenomenon happening on luxury menus across Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja: the giant African land snail is rubbing shoulders with tiger prawns, calamari, and lobster ...

Ken Albala is the author of The Lost Art of Real Cooking with Rosanna Nafziger. He harvests garden snails from his property, feeds them, cooks them and eats them for dinner. He says the common garden ...