It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt".
It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits, and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt'.
(Actually, the pork loin and polenta were tasty enough, without the other versions. ) My favorite starter was the simplest: a luscious chowder made of local corn, littleneck clams and North Country applewood bacon.
Dinner at Atera can redraw the line between nature and artifice, with food that mimics living creatures (a razor clam made of bread), and deeply unconventional ingredients made into something familiar (a puffed chip made of rock tripe).
GQ: "I reached for the cool-looking pinkish drink on the table and took a deep gulp, only to remember it was a michelada made of Bud Light spiked with smoked-clam juice, chile oil and a rim of more crushed chiles and Sichuan peppercorns," writes Brett Martin in this great, gonzo profile of Danny Bowien from Mission Chinese Food.
The sculpture shows Ariel as she rests upon a landscape filled with coral rocks while gazing out at an engagement ring made of sand inside a half-opened clam shell.
He added, "All three events will come off smashingly and everybody will be happy as a clam and everybody will make a lot of clams".
Linguine al frutti di mare, made with clams, mussels, shrimp and calamari, was a good version of the classic.
Cockles and shrimp in a light pink cream sauce were firm and pleasantly briny — as was the clams casino, a regular appetizer, made with whole clams and a bit of Roquefort cheese.
On a subsequent night, the crust was also crisper on a clam pizza, but the taste was marred by an abundance of pancetta, which made the clam topping excessively salty (a recurring problem that evening).
