Category: mussels

Saffron-Steamed Mussels

March 23, 2022
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This is a wonderful and simple dish to make, as it only takes about 15 minutes for the mussels to cook. Just be sure to plan ahead and start soaking them 40 minutes before you’re ready to start. Steamed mussels allow for all sorts of different sauces and cooking liquids, changing the profile of the…

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Tenacious Belgian Immigrant Pioneered Canada’s Mussel Industry in the 1970s

September 18, 2021
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CHARLOTTETOWN—When Joe Van Den Bremt first floated the idea of producing cultured mussels on P.E.I. in the 1970s, the local fishermen laughed at him. “They were all telling me, ’We use that stuff for fertilizer,’” he said in 2017. “’Nobody is going to eat those dumb things.’” Today, almost half of North America’s succulent supply…

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Moules Marinières: Fast Food, the French Way

August 19, 2021
Food & DiningFrenchLife & TraditionmusselsRecipesseafood
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The French have long had a love affair with mussels. According to local lore, they have a shipwrecked Irishman to thank for that. In 1235, as the story goes, Patrick Walton was shipwrecked in Aiguillon Bay, off the Atlantic coast of Vendée, France. Starving, he stuck two wooden poles in the water and attached a…

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Moules Marinières: 10-minute Mussels to Transport You to the French Coast

August 19, 2021
Food & DiningFrenchLife & TraditionmusselsRecipesseafood
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The French have long had a love affair with mussels. According to local lore, they have a shipwrecked Irishman to thank for that. In 1235, as the story goes, Patrick Walton was shipwrecked in Aiguillon Bay, off the Atlantic coast of Vendée, France. Starving, he stuck two wooden poles in the water and attached a…

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