“Generally, if people don’t like snails, they won’t order them,” replies the sommelier Wilem Powell, which is hard to argue with. Snails are showing up on menus in unexpected ways.

Snails are showing up on menus in unexpected ways. They have been the glistening topping for flatbreads with bone marrow and bacon at Maison François in St James’s, and minced into bolognese at Story ...

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