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Knobbed whelks, commonly known as conch on Lowcountry menus, are so ancient that when the dinosaurs disappeared whelks gave the snail equivalent of a shrug. Their ancestors were hoovering up worms on ...

So when I first encountered Korner Kitchen ’s outstanding conch stew, I assumed it had an equally protracted back story. I called chef-owner Daniel Middleton — a native of Hollywood, where the ...