In the sun-baked fields of central Tunisia, a growing number of unemployed young men are turning to an unlikely source of income: snail hunting. With traditional job opportunities scarce and food ...

A snail is a small mollusk with a spiral-shaped shell. Snails are famous for moving very slowly and for leaving a trail of slime behind them. They all have shells that they can retreat within. You may ...

Around 15,000 participants gathered in the Spanish city of Lleida for L’Aplec del Caragol for a three-day festival dedicated to snail eating.

Ken Albala is the author of The Lost Art of Real Cooking with Rosanna Nafziger. He harvests garden snails from his property, feeds them, cooks them and eats them for dinner. He says the common garden ...