On the Shelf 'The Mermaid of Black Conch' By Monique Roffey Knopf: 240 pages, $26 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support ...

Off the shores of Black Conch, an imagined island in the Caribbean, in 1976, two American white men and a crew of Black island sailors hook a mermaid and wrestle her out of the water.

People from New York, locals, everyone wants to know about the guy with the conch in the pineapple shells.” Reed, a self-taught chef who has been selling his food at Jazz in the Gardens since ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...

From Conch to Tahitian black to melo melo, here’s a cheat sheet of rare pearls—what they are, where to find them, and how to wear them.

1 pound conch meat (or 1 pound calamari or 1½ pounds U10-size shrimp, peeled and deveined) ½ cup coconut oil. 1 red bell pepper, minced. ½ cup roughly chopped scallions.

LA PAZ, Mexico— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today seeking protection for the queen conch under Mexico’s Standard NOM-059, a federal law that protects at-risk species from ...