The 24th of May is Escargot Day. Escargot had their heyday in the 1970s, when everyone ate them with garlic butter and bought the Escargot dishes for home use.
Snails
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…
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.