Once considered a regional dish of Florida and tropical outposts in the Caribbean, conch is appearing on a bevy of fine-dining menus across the country. A staple of Caribbean cuisine for hundreds or ...

Knobbed whelks, commonly known as conch on Lowcountry menus, are so ancient that when the dinosaurs disappeared whelks gave the snail equivalent of a shrug. Their ancestors were hoovering up worms on ...

I grew up with a pink and cream conch shell on the living room mantel, and would hold it to my ear to listen to the sound of surf reverberating in the shell, pure magic. Little did I know as a kid ...