Andrew Zimmern

As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.

American Critic

Elise Stefanik

Zebra mussels like to hitch a ride on boats when they're transferred from one body of water to another. It's important to make sure to thoroughly clean your boat each time it leaves the water to ensure these invasive mussels are removed and that you are not spreading them to your next location.

American Politician

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!

Dutch Scientist

Jim Himes

I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.

Rick Stein

In Australia you're not allowed to go down to the beach and eat anything from the rocks. You just can't do it - help yourself to mussels and things like that because there's hardly any left and the government has now legislated against it.

English Chef

Vanessa Williams

When Cuba Gooding Jr. and I were doing 'The Trip to Bountiful,' we would always go to BXL, a Belgian restaurant/bar. It was across the street from the theater, and they have amazing mussels.

American Actress

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

John Darnielle

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

American Musician

Meghan Markle

For dinner parties, I love making an easy cioppino using shrimp, mussels, clams, and a hearty fish that won't fall apart easily.

I can tell everything about a restaurant through their mussels. You have to work so hard to keep them perfect.

Refers to shellfish often used in seafood dishes, considered a delicacy.

Culinary Term

Commonly found listed under appetizers or entrees in restaurants.

Menu Item

People allergic to shellfish must avoid eating mussels due to severe reactions.

Allergy Warning

Blue mussels and freshwater mussels are different kinds; their taste and cooking methods vary.

Cooking Varieties

Mussels are often farmed sustainably; environmentally conscious diners may prefer them.

Sustainability

This definition is not about the creature, but about a device that provides protection from heat.

Heat Resistance

The term in this context refers to functional kitchenware, usually silicone or fabric.

Household Item

 What it would do is it would drill a hole. It would bore a little hole into the shells of those barnacles and mussels. It will inject this enzyme deep into the the body, Which will sort of digest it for it and turn it into a liquid soup. And then it has this tube structure thing called a proboscis, which it uses to suck out all that

Finding Baby Seals on an...

 diet comes from the ocean they fish barnacles mussels clams even washed-up whales they live this incredible existence and this particular day will stay with me forever because it was the first time I'd ever got close to a coastal wolf up to this point every time I tried to sneak up on them or get close

A Quest to Find Canada’s...

 we've put some of the adhesion chemistry from the mussels. So because we've got the corn and we've got the mussels, we call this our surf-and-turf polymer. And it sticks. It sticks really well. It's very strong. It's also bio-based. That's nice. But maybe more importantly, here, it's also degradable;

What sticky sea...

 Mussels and other bivalves do tremendous amounts of water filtration. A single mussel can filter dozens of gallons every single day. And this is incredibly important when we look at the world. Right now, nitrification, overuse of phosphates in our waterways are causing tremendous algal blooms.

The four fish we're...

 captivity from zoos and wildlife sanctuaries to rehab centers and even private collections joel has taken pictures of small animals a cumberlandian comb shell mussel the key largo cotton mouse and a japanese trapdoor snail he's taken photos of large animals too

Saving the Creepy...

 deprivation and massive fish death it's very bad in fact ecologists report that locations invaded by the golden mussel become are almost genius over time which in biology is bad because it means less diversity and the biodiversity is the life-support

Sequencing genomes to...

 such as zebra and quagga mussels, and sea lampreys that have decimated some indigenous fish populations. On a larger scale, climate change is causing the waters to warm, thus reducing water levels and changing the distribution of aquatic life.

What’s so great about...

 a storm from the north wrecked two of the ships and the soldiery brothers mussels onto a reef we were the first people to discover this shipwreck and the reason being because it was such a remote part of the world its son an

Shipwreck From Explorer...

 fish lay eggs amidst their sprawling, complex root systems. Symbiotic sponges and sea squirts protect their host trees from hungry woodboring crustaceans. Crabs, snails, and shrimp eat algae, mussels, barnacles,

The sharks that hunt in...

 for harvesting time here that is amazing and there how far down there about eight meters deep Wow before they're ready to cook the mussels must first be put through an extensive