thai green curry mussels

Why do we love Maine rope-grown blue mussels? To start, they're cheap, they're meaty and they're ever so sweet. Plus there's no question about seafood sustainability issues with rope-grown mussels. Mussel farming on suspended ropes is considered an environmentally benign form of aquaculture compared to finfish farming, which can pollute and cause other environmental problems. Seafood WATCH gives the blue-black bivalves its Best Choice rating. Getting mussels ready for the pot used to be tedious. You needed a stiff brush to scrub each and every one to remove the crusty bits. Next you soaked them in fresh water with a dusting of flour floating on the surface, which was supposed to purge any...