Escargot is one of those slightly intimidating French dishes you only pretend to know about. But actually, this snail dish isn't all that scary; it's essentially mollusks in a rich, herbaceous sauce.

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 ...