Snails

Escargot Day

Escargot had their heyday in the 1970s, when everyone ate them at restaurants with garlic butter and bought the Escargot dishes for home use (but couldn’t actually bring themselves to go the next step and buy the slimy little critters for use in their own kitchen.) Mind you, as some food writers have observed, you…

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Fulvius Lippinus

Quintus Fulvius Lippinus (aka Fulvius Hirpinus) was a Roman who lived around the middle of the first century BC in the formerly Estruscan areas of Italy. “It is reported that Quintus Fulvius Lippinus has a preserve in the vicinity of Tarquinii of forty iugera…. and an even larger one near Statonia, and some in other…

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Snail Butter Bourguignon Style

Snail Butter Bourguignon Style is butter blended with finely chopped shallots, chopped parsley, 2 pressed or pounded cloves of garlic, and salt and pepper. It is used to fill the shells of snails being cooked in the bourguignonne style.

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