Reader Lori Osmany is looking for scungilli, also commonly called conch. I decided to do a little research to determine the differences between the two, because some people insist that scungilli are ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In college, I once mentioned "scungilli" to my pals who came from parts North and West of Staten Island. The word drew blank stares. At the time, I couldn't quite explain to ...

The emphasis on fish comes from the centuries-old rule against eating meat on Friday to honor the sacrifice of Jesus, according to Robert Germano’s 2005 book “The Eve of the Seven Fishes: Christmas ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. (AP) — Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it's a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East ...

Christmas Eve's Feast of the Seven Fishes is, by Italian Catholic tradition, supposed to be a penitential meal, and it may be, depending on your view of eel, smelt, anchovies and snails. But for most ...

Knobbed whelks, commonly known as conch on Lowcountry menus, are so ancient that when the dinosaurs disappeared whelks gave the snail equivalent of a shrug. Their ancestors were hoovering up worms on ...