STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In college, I once mentioned "scungilli" to my pals who came from parts North and West of Staten Island. The word drew blank stares. At the time, I couldn't quite explain to ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. — Cooking a channeled whelk is not for the squeamish. But sliced and sprinkled over a bed of linguine, it's a chewy delicacy in old-fashioned Italian eateries along the East Coast ...

Have you ever tried scungilli? The meat of whelks caught off the coast of New Jersey has been a staple of the Christmas Eve “Feast of the Seven Fishes” for generations of Italian American families in ...