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coques

cockles

Coques often appear on a fruits de mer platter, and can be eaten raw or cooked; the best ones are the bénons from Picardy.

Tuberculate cockle or rough cockle is a bucarde, coque tuberculée, bucarde à verrues or langue rouge.

Fish and seafood

Text © Dana Facaros

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