Most people haven’t cooked many — if any — mussels in their lifetimes. Just the sight of that little cluster of blue-black shells is sometimes enough to send one scurrying back toward more familiar ...

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Can’t tell the two bivalves apart? Here’s a handy guide. Simply Recipes / Photo by Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Ruth Blackburn / Prop Styling by Claire Spollen Clams and mussels taste different, ...

Creatures of the sea are some of the more tricky proteins to prepare — preparing scallops, for example, could go wrong in many ways. When it comes to cooking mussels, be sure you do justice to the ...

To prepare pasta with chickpeas, mussels, and burrata, start by cleaning the mussels. Remove the beard and clean the shell well (1), then rinse them under running water. At this point, proceed with ...

It is perplexing to me that mussels aren’t on more Americans’ dinner tables. The succulent shellfish have everything going for them. They are lip-smackingly tasty and fun to eat; they are inexpensive, ...

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It's 1970-something. Mussels are virtually unknown in the United States. They're something that the French eat, but what can you expect of a people that eats snails? I'm on a beach on Nantucket Island ...