Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — Snails Are Easy to Raise And Make Nutritious Food, States a British Authority [ARTICLE]

Snails Are Easy to Raise And Make Nutritious Food, States a British Authority

“Ail snails are edible and nutritious,” said Canon Hersiey In a book on British land and fresh water molluscs, Just published. He goes on to say that even the common garden snail, though insipid, is as nourishing as calf’s foot Jelly. . There is a large white-shelled snail cnlied rtelix pomatia that Is commonly eaten by connoisseurs In the south of England, while all over France, Italy and Spain several species are used as food. In France there are many small snail farms which yield a good profit to their owners. In the French and Italian quarters of New York snails may be bought, either alive or cooked, and at most of the French restaurants they are served “escargot* farcls” being the most usual form of the dish. Snails are easy to raise in large quantities. They need lime for making their shells, but they do not have to be fed, as they can find their own food, which is the leaves of many plants. They eat nothing else.