Most people think of clams as a gooey blob inside of a two-piece shell, but there’s actually a lot more going on inside that shell that you might come to expect. While it’s true that a clam is rather ...

There are a lot of different reasons why a clam might open its shell. My friend Jonathan Robinson, a marine ecologist at Washington State University, told me all about it. If we spent some time where ...

Learn how to clean fresh clams and pick the best ones for classic dishes, including linguine with clams and clam chowder. Learning how to clean clams before cooking—steamed garlic-butter clams, anyone ...