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Show SNAILS VERY NUTRITIOUS 'All snails are edible and nutrltous," says Canon Hersey in a book on British land and fresh water molluses, 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 pomatla that Is commonly eaten by connoisseurs In the south of England, while al over France, Italy and Spain several species are used as food. In France there are many small farms which yield a good profit to their owners. In the French and Italian Ital-ian quarters of New York snails may be bought, either alive or cooked, and at most of the French restaurants they aro served, "escargos facls" being the most usual form of 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 foot, which is exclusively the leaves of many plants. They are most delicious de-licious when properly prepared and cooked, and, as Canon Hersley says, as nourishing as calf's foot Jelly. Ttt Bits. oo |