In between rolls of antacid and scoops of ice cream, the unofficial finish to a fried-clam meal, we found that this summertime classic is even more fleeting than the season of its peak popularity.
According to TCPalm, Nelson Agosto was dismayed by the size of the clams in the meal he ordered from Crabby's Seafood Shack.
Coarsely chop the clam meat.
As he tours a dystopian city – where people are only known by number – he is taken to a "café", where his new friends order him up a meal of clam chowder, roast beef, beets, asparagus, pie and coffee.
In his new book, "50 Chowders: One-Pot Meals -- Clam, Corn and Beyond" (Scribner, $30), Mr. White's expertise shows up in excellent recipes like one for a chowder made with salmon and peas, another done Portuguese-style with sausage and tomatoes, and an intriguing chowder from Maine layered in a pot with crackers.
A large mandarin orange salad with walnuts and blue cheese, a plate of chunky guacamole and a cup of not-too-thick, well-seasoned New England clam chowder rounded out the meal.
Over the next hours, he discussed the finer points of such delights as Awful Awfuls, Del's lemonade, stuffies, cabinets, johnnycakes, doughboys and clam cakes, washing down his meal with a big glass of coffee milk.
I had a delightful meal, (linguini with clams), a fabulous glass of Chianti, and went home happy and full.
Other meals ideas are clam and oyster.
I met his wife for a brief moment and then continued on to our table to have the most delicious meal of spaghetti with clam sauce.
During a recent meal, a starter of clams was deeply satisfying — the tiny, almost delicate shellfish transformed by a topping of botarga, bread crumbs and agretti, a lemony marsh grass.
