They can live in salt water or fresh water and, like many of their shellfish cousins, should be alive right up until they are cooked. As far as sustainable fish, mussels are near the top of the list.

If you are intimidated by the idea of cooking mussels, you are not alone. But it is easy, really. And these tasty bivalves are highly nutritious: they are a great source of protein (ounce for ...

Plus, you can buy, clean, and cook a bag of mussels in under an hour. We’d spoon the shellfish from their deep sauté pan into shallow bowls, piling their shiny shells high and always going in ...

Here’s how to get your fill this fall. Remember that mussels are alive until you cook them, and they need to stay alive and breathing until they’re ready to hit the pan. To keep them in this s ...

Now, decades later, he is publishing, “Mussels: An Homage in 50 Recipes,” a cookbook that also doubles as an ode to the simple bivalve and, as Herman puts it, “a moment when I reconciled ...

There's an apparent disconnect when it comes to mussels in Rhode Island. They're found on the menu of just about every fine restaurant. But hardly anyone harvests them from Narragansett Bay.