Question: I just got back from the Bahamas, where I tried conch for the first time and loved it. I’ve never seen it on a menu in the Twin Cities. Do you know of any restaurant that serves conch?
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 ...
“You gotta pound that stuff,” a chef friend told me. “Like, hard.” We were talking cracked conch. It’s a ubiquitous dish in the Bahamas, something akin to fish and chips in Britain. Just better.