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Invasive snails become gourmet meal in Wisconsin episode of cooking show

There might be a new way to think of one particular species of invasive snail being found in Wisconsin’s water: as a part of a gourmet meal.

At least that’s the approach Minneapolis chef Yia Vang and Titus Sielheimer, a fisheries outreach specialist for the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant, made this summer, when they filmed themselves harvesting and cooking up Chinese mystery snails in northern Wisconsin.