"Tastes like chicken" — a commonly-used phrase to help describe foods that might be considered a little out there. That is how Chuck Donohue, owner of Lewes Fishhouse, describes turtle meat. He sells ...

The dangerous effects of climate change are no longer a far-off possibility. Just ask the baby sea turtles. From the very second sea turtles are born they are in a fight for survival. After they dig ...

Bring the chicken stock and turtle meat to a low simmer in a large stockpot and cook turtle meat for 1 hour, making sure to skim away scum that may rise to the surface. Strain turtle meat from the ...

According to The Picayune's Creole Cook book, first published in 1900, "the Creoles pride themselves upon their famous soupe a la tortue, and justly, the old saying that only a good Creole cook knows ...

Never having eaten turtle before, the first thing Edward Kim did when he got a few pounds of snapping-turtle meat was panfry some. “I cooked it really quickly—I saw how quickly it was tensing up, and ...

A group gathered Wednesday morning at a Southland nature spot to culminate a yearlong project that brought together representatives from Cook and DuPage counties, the Shedd Aquarium, and state and ...

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Dec. 5—Kale, an endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle and beloved attraction at Cook Museum of Natural Science in Decatur, died last week after a lengthy battle with infection. "My son absolutely loved ...

ORLAND PARK, Ill. -- About a dozen turtles got a high tech accessory on Friday in Orland Park, Illinois. The Forest Preserves of Cook County teamed up with Friends of the Chicago River to attach ...

An 18th century cook book containing a stomach-churning recipe for mock turtle soup has been discovered in a cardboard box. A Mrs Casters meticulously jotted down 160 recipes in the 229-year-old book ...