A whelk needs to be alive when you cook it. To check, rap on its shell sharply. If it recoils slightly, it's alive. If not, toss it and choose another. Serve this dish with a little salad and some ...

For the past few months we have been serving fresh whelks at Toqué! - when we can get them - as part of our tasting menu. Whelk ( bourgot in French) is a marine snail with a whitish spiral-shaped ...

Spicy whelk (or sea snail) salad is a famous chilli hot salad that accompanies drinks, namely soju or beer. Spicy but moreish, it is a delicious shared appetiser that is part of Korean anju, which ...

Nick Lacasse experienced a slight hiccup while ordering whelks from his fish purveyor for this challenge. “They sent me five cases of elk,” he said. He ended up getting the whelks and returned the elk ...

I made something very similar to this in my British Regional Food cookbook and hey presto! – it turns up in New Orleans in a local version using the "mash" from the Tabasco process in a garlic butter.

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I have been a regular at the Whelk since it opened a few years back. For some bizarre reason, it is often tremendously hard to find really great seafood on our southern Connecticut coastline. When the ...