A guide to buying, storing, and cooking mussels that will give you the confidence to prepare mussel dishes at home. If the idea of cooking mussels intimidates you, you’re not alone. But take heart, ...

How to Cook Mussels If you see a clump of coarse looking hair or threads on one side of the shell, don’t fret. It’s called the beard, which is how mussels attach to surfaces in farms or the wild.

Most people haven’t cooked many — if any — mussels in their lifetimes. Just the sight of that little cluster of blue-black shells is sometimes enough to send one scurrying back toward more familiar ...

I know when I cook live mussels or clams, the fact that they're alive is what makes them open up when I cook them (it's their last attempt to regulate their internal temp). But I see frozen mussels ...

Most people haven’t cooked many — if any — mussels in their lifetimes. Just the sight of that little cluster of blue-black shells is sometimes enough to send one scurrying back to… ...