THE MARLOW & DAUGHTERS CREW

NOV 2019 Yoko Koide, a butcher at Marlow & Daughters, finds snails in a case of arugula. “We got super into them,” she says. “Eventually they bred, and we gave the babies to our friends.”

AUG 2020 Koide gives snails to her friends Keren Lieu and engineer Tom Nguyen. “My boyfriend is obsessed with them—he calls them ‘my perfect boys,’ ” says Lieu.