Top season for clam quality is September through February, with the peak right now in November, when their seawater is chock full of phytoplankton, their favorite meal. Each of those little guys ...

So as a general rule, if it's dead beforehand, its shell won't be closed (hence why you throw out the ones with open shells before cooking). During cooking, the clams are killed by the heat and in ...

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The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth’s past. For the first time, researchers ...