Whether served in tacos, with pasta or on their own, we love tucking into a plate of juicy shrimp. We mean prawns. Or wait, what do we mean? Crustaceans can be confounding. And while we wish the ...

Prawns (for all you scientists, they are a suborder of the dendrobranchiata) and shrimp are generally used interchangeably, but that’s not exactly accurate. Yes, both prawns and shrimp have 10 legs ...

In the United States, we slap the "shrimp" label on everything that even bears a passing resemblance to that crustacean — even prawns. In Australia, they do the same thing with prawns — even shrimp.

ALMOST offhandedly, Tommy Pearson points across the ocean toward the horizon: “Look at all those birds, must be some dolphins coming.” Sure enough, a couple of minutes later we’re in the midst of a ...

The Chronicle Food staff informally tasted 11 varieties of shrimp, the number that we found in markets last week. The shopping process underscored the lesson that shrimp are wild, seasonal food, and ...

"I caught those prawns," fisherman Steve Johansen proudly tells a table of diners at in Vancouver, B.C. "Nice catch," responds one of the diners. This spring, she and many like her are feasting on ...

American consumers are scooping up more shrimp than ever at lower prices, but it is not all good news because some aquaculture-grown shrimp and prawns from Malaysia contain residues from unapproved ...

When it comes down to their biology, both shrimp and prawns are decapods, meaning they're crustaceans with ten legs. Shrimp, the more petite crustacean, live in saltwater. There are a few small but ...