My first meal in France was in a little restaurant in Paris. I ordered a bottle of wine and a serve of snails cooked in butter, garlic and parsley. They were so good that I didn’t think I’d ever find ...

This dish is from the Midi-Pyrénées region. For the French, this is a very festive dish and each region has its own version, but they all contain lots of garlic. In the Midi/Pyrénées region, walnuts ...

Long before escargot—or what we know simply as snails—became a symbol of French refinement, it appeared on tables in ancient ...