Hari Cameron grasped the creature in his hand and reached for a beat-up old hammer. A hammer isn’t typically found in a chef's kitchen, but then again, Cameron isn’t like most chefs. He delivered a ...

A whelk needs to be alive when you cook it. To check, rap on its shell sharply. If it recoils slightly, it's alive. If not, toss it and choose another. Serve this dish with a little salad and some ...

Nick Lacasse experienced a slight hiccup while ordering whelks from his fish purveyor for this challenge. “They sent me five cases of elk,” he said. He ended up getting the whelks and returned the elk ...

Whelk ( bourgot in French) is a marine snail with a whitish spiral-shaped shell. The edible part has a delicate, slightly salty taste that makes them particularly delicious in salads. Finding them is ...

In a large pot, bring two inches of water to a boil. Add whelks, cook for four minutes. Remove from pot, chop meat, and set aside. Add quahogs to boiling water and steam until they open. Remove ...

Jamie Eldredge has been fishing out of Chatham since 1984. Like most fisherman he started out working on other boats, and eventually bought his own 25-foot boat, the Miss Jillian, in 1990 to go hook ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. (AP) — Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it's a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East ...

LITTLE COMPTON — Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it's a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East Coast. The ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. — Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it's a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East Coast ...