If you are intimidated by the idea of cooking mussels, you are not alone. But it is easy, really. And these tasty bivalves are highly nutritious: they are a great source of protein (ounce for ounce, ...

Heat the oil in a large soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onion and fennel and cook until the vegetables ...

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 ...

Place the thyme, parsley and bay leaf on a square of cheesecloth; tie together the corners of the cheesecloth to make a bouquet garni. Wash the mussels. Sort through them and throw out any dead ones.

The best thing about a meal of steamed mussels is the sauce left at the bottom of the bowl. Yes, I adore the bivalves themselves — those sweet, saline nuggets plucked out of their blue-black shells.

Recipes from chef Accursio Lota explore Christmas Eve tradition among Italian Americans with sumptuous mussels, pasta with ...

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 ...