Why Mussels Are The Ultimate Soup Flavor-Booster - Chowhound

Alessio Orru/Shutterstock There are few foods as evocative as a bowl of steamed mussels. Gleaming shells in soothing, fragrant broth, they're well worth the labor-intensive effort required to liberate each bite from its encasement, and deserving of the extra space their discard demands atop a table. But, relatively quick as they are to make, they're still A Project, what with all the debearding, precise timing,…