"There's nothing left here," sighs Javier Franch as he shakes the heavy rope of mussels he's just pulled to the surface in northeastern Spain. They are all dead. With the country hit by a long and ...

(Serves 6 as an appetizer, 4 as an entree) Mussels: blue, Penn Cove and Mediterranean Scientific names: Mytilus edulis (blue), M. trossulus (blue -- also known as Penn Cove mussels), M.

This quick weeknight recipe features good-for-you grains, courtesy of Massachusetts cooking instructor and food writer Maria Speck. Her "Ancient Grains for Modern Meals" (Ten Speed Press) made the ...

Faced with rising Black Sea temperatures that suffocate his mussels, Bulgarian farmer Nayden Stanev has been forced to change his ways -- shifting his seeding schedule and harvesting at cooler depths.

As bad as it is for Bulgaria's mussel farmers, their peers in the Mediterranean Sea have had to deal with even higher water temperatures. "We are better off," Stanev told AFP. Though the Balkan EU ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Local author Steve Hoffman has published a new memoir about his Minnesota family's immersion into a tiny winemaking village in the Languedoc region of southern France. The title ...

THERMAIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) - When Anastasios Zakalkas pulled up the ropes of his mussel farm in the Aegean Sea last month, the devastation was clear: the lines were not heaving with molluscs as ...

South Africa is starting to heat up, at least in my neck of the woods in Johannesburg. As spring sets in, I usually experience a palate change. I long for light meals, often with a Mediterranean ...