Butter is a staple ingredient in French cooking; for Italians, it’s olive oil. But in the Bahamas, conch (pronounced konk) is an ingredient used in many dishes. The conch shell is the most beautiful ...

Butter is a staple ingredient in French cooking; for Italians, it’s olive oil. But in The Bahamas, conch (pronounced konk) is an ingredient utilized in many dishes. The conch shell is the most ...

Dee Conchman started his conch-making enterprise six years ago. He's part of a group of Miami food entrepreneurs who specialize in the sweet shellfish. Derrick Prater is "Dee Conchman." Every day he ...

“You gotta pound that stuff,” a chef friend told me. “Like, hard.” We were talking cracked conch. It’s a ubiquitous dish in the Bahamas, something akin to fish and chips in Britain. Just better.