SOISSONS, France (Reuters Life!) - If you want your guests to linger over an exclusive entree at a festive dinner party, why not try a novelty in slow-food -- snail eggs. The French started eating ...

Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein. Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a garden ...

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 ...

and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower socioeconomic classes as cheap sources of protein. So how did these unusual ingredients become ...