Look at that Escargot!

Mark your calendars -- National Escargot Day is rapidly approaching. Really. As a lead up to the big day, Chef Craig Hopson of One if by Land, Two if by Sea, in association with Douglas Dussault of Potironne Company, is serving a 6-course snail-laden tasting menu featuring Wild Burgundy Snails. Yes, even dessert will have a snail of some sort involved.

The dinner will benefit God’s Love We Deliver, an organization that prepares and delivers nutritious meals to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-altering illnesses, who, because of their illness are unable to provide or prepare meals for themselves. Dinner is $85 per person / $135 with wine pairings with 25% donated to God’s Love We Deliver. For reservations go to www.opentable.com or call 212-228-0822. One if by Land, Two if by Sea, 17 Barrow Street.

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By Laren Spirer in Food on May 21, 2008 12:26 PM

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sonyactivision

No militant vegan would dare eat a slug...that would be cannibalism.

Guest

Somehow I knew no vegans or vegetarians would come to the aid of the slugs. They only stand up for the 'cute' or 'beautiful' animals.

sonyactivision

I first had them in Ciudad Juarez. They were *slurp*,*slurp*, delicious!

zmadison

That picture is priceless.

Snoopy

Are there any other mammals that eat slimy slugs? We are talking low end on the food chain here. You can call them escargot, but the fact is they are snails and slugs with borrowed shells.

I guess if you put enough some kind of French sauce on a pile of shit it might also taste good to some people, not me. Typical French cuisine.

lanciano

Snoopy, you usually can't see the antennae or the razor scooters when eating escargot. I find them very tasty.

Ethan

Slug-butter, slugs.

jibbly

Haha, good corny joke + photo = favorite!

mocanlagunas

don't eat them if you don't like them... duh!

I do like them, but $85...

ed_Extinct

slugs with shells!

amsci

I tried snails in Chinatown... they really weren't that bad. They didn't have much of a taste, mostly just taking on the flavor of the brothy sauce they were cooked in and were chewy (kind of like slightly overcoooked calamari).

You had to pull each one out of the shell with a toothpick, which was a little more effort than warranted for such a small morsel.