Nathai Perattal, a lightly curried snail meat dish, has become trendy in recent weeks ever since New York-based Chef Vijay Kumar won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: New York State in June. The ...

Seated on a dry patch of dirt overlooking a field in Tamil Nadu, India, a wiry, weathered man wearing a white lungi (a type of sarong) and no shoes holds up an enormous steel tray of a hundred raw ...