I’m a snail farmer. My goal is to become one of the biggest snail farmers in Africa. I’m starting small, but I want to raise millions of them—herds of snails, hordes of snails, swarms of snails.

When Damien Desrocher, 28, decided to “return to nature” in December, it meant leaving his job as an air force computer technician and moving to the northern French town of Wahagnies, where he started ...

and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower socioeconomic classes as cheap sources of protein. So how did these unusual ingredients become ...