bivalve

It was with scallops right out of St. Joe Bay that we made our version of Coquilles St. Jacques, as well as few more of my mother’s favorite recipes featuring those succulent bivalve mollusks that she and my sister pulled from the water.

Melbourne drew on a historical resource -- the Museum's large bivalve collection, which dates to the late 1800s -- to trace environmental changes in natural settings.

Now, decades later, he is publishing, “Mussels: An Homage in 50 Recipes,” a cookbook that also doubles as an ode to the simple bivalve and, as Herman puts it, “a moment when I reconciled with these exquisite creatures.”

He put the wee bivalve in a petri dish and asked a colleague to set it aside.

In full transparency, I am so in love with this species of marine bivalve mollusks — but it didn't start out that way.