The break-in was "a real blow", says L'Escargot Des Grands Crus, which was preparing deliveries for the holiday season.

What a bunch of slimeballs! In just the latest major theft of a French national treasure, bandits slipped into a famous snail ...

The French eat about 37 million pounds of snails every year, according to the National Heliciculture Federation of France, ...

More than $100,000 of escargot was stolen from a French snail farm supplying Michelin restaurants, leaving the producer racing to replenish stock before the holidays.

A French farm near the city of Reims, just 80 miles outside of Paris, reported a heist in which thieves made off with ...

Thieves have stolen almost 1,000 pounds of escargot worth more than $100,000 from a family-run snail farm, wiping out a year’s stock just as holiday demand hits, according to The New York Times. Inès ...

Heliciculture has become one of the newest and fastest growing industries in the United States. Heliciculture, the process of snail farming, is being developed by a number of individuals. The market ...

Heliciculture, commonly known as snail farming, is the process of cultivation of edible snails. The meat and snail eggs can be consumed as escargot (as menu on the table) and as a delicacy. Raising ...

The farmer, a 79-year-old former shoe salesman called Terry Ball who has made and lost multiple fortunes, has been cheerfully telling me in great detail for several hours about how he was inspired by ...

Despite their unassuming character, snails are great at lots of things. Different species of the shelled gastropod can impress with their ability to sprint, poison, or leave way too many embryos on ...

Fact: 99.9% of restaurants that have escargot on their menu received them in a can from France. Why? No other options. Fresh, never frozen snails are impossible to obtain, even for the country's best ...