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 ...

Quick-cooking, sweetly flavored and with a friendly price tag (between $5 and $7 per pound), mussels are a near-perfect food. If you’re already a fan, you’re nodding your head, and if you’re not yet ...