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Dear Linda, Sophie and friends.
We have in Greece only the mussels "edulis" wild and cultivate, our
recipes are at all different from the French and Belgian.
I have see the green mussels in many seafood restaurants in South East
Asia.
Best regards.
George
Sophie Valtat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The only green mussels I've ever seen were frozen and surely not
> from Greece. I've been a lot of time in Greece and I've never seen
> such mussels ! Perhaps George could confirm.
>
> Sophie, from France !
>
> >Hi!
> > Monday I took my husband out for a birthday lunch at a Chinese
> >buffet, and there on the steam table, labelled "Greek Mussels" was
> >not an "edulis" but a mussel with emerald green periostracum, with
> >brown longitudinal stripes. The only "green"
> >mussel I could find in my books was "viridis," which is not from
> >Greece. (Could the recipe have been Greek?) Does anyone know what
> >I have (of course, I brought the shells home; too bads I couldn't
> >get the matching valves, short of going through their dumpster later
> >that night, and my husband would have said a definite NO to that).
> >Does anyone know what I might have. It does look as if there is
> >one tooth in one valve, and two in the other, but I'm not sure of
> >that.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Linda Bush
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