These buttery and garlicky Burgundy snails, or escargots de Bourgogne, are a classic French delicacy; yet they aren't French any more. Every snail prepared by the employees at Croque Bourgogne comes ...

The French are the world’s biggest snail-eaters, consuming about 25,000 tonnes a year—equivalent to 700 million individual snails. To meet demand, snails are mostly raised in farms. It is important to ...

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 ...