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Show SNAIL A VALUABLE FOOD Edible and Nutritious, Is the Verdict That Has Been Arrived At by Those Who Know. "All snails are edible and nutritious," nutri-tious," says Canon Horsley in a book on British land and fresh water molluscs, mol-luscs, just published. He goes on to say that even the common or garden snail, though insipid, is as nourishing as calf's-foot jelly. There is a large white shelled snail called Helix 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 snail farms, which yield a good profit to their owners. In the French and Italian Ita-lian quarters of New York snails may be bought, either alive or cooked, and at most of the French restaurants they are served, "escargots farcis" being be-ing the most usual form of the dish. . Snails are easy to raise in large quantities. They need lime for making mak-ing their shells, but they do not have to be fed, as they can find their own food, .which is exclusively the leaves of many plants. They are most delicious deli-cious when properly prepared and cooked and, as Canon Horsley says, as nourishing as calf's-fQpt jelly. |