1. Inspect the mussels and discard any that are open (and don't close when squeezed or tapped) or have broken shells. If any of the mussels have beards, the small stringy clump attached to one side, ...

To prepare pasta with pumpkin, potatoes, and mussels, start with How to Clean and Open Mussels: wash the mussels under a stream of cold running water (1), then vigorously scrub the shells with a stiff ...

To prepare Catalan-style mussels, start with the How to Clean and Open Mussels. After rinsing the mollusks under running water (1), with the help of a knife, remove encrustations and barnacles from ...

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"Oh, yes," my friend moaned as he poked his fork enthusiastically into a steaming bowl of shellfish. "Mussels. The poor man's oyster." The thought put a smile on my face. He was right on economics: ...