CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Irish fish wives used to sing “cockles and mussels alive, alive O!” And that, in essence, is the topic of an international conference being held in Charleston this week. The ...
SLURPING OYSTERS from their shells may be a rare indulgence for humans, but these bivalve molluscs and their relatives, such as clams and mussels, slurp for a living. Most are filter feeders, ...
Throngs of tourists swarm Suffolk Street day after day to glimpse the pride of Dublin that stands outside St. Andrew’s Church: a statue of Molly Malone, the folkloric fishmonger commemorated in the ...