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Techniques
Keeping Clams Happy
On a visit to her Florida kitchen, we noticed that Marcella Hazan stored the live clams she was going to use in one of her recipes tied up in a clean, damp kitchen towel set in a bowl in the refrigerator. Hazan explained that this method provides the kind of dark, cold, moist setting living mollusks prefer and helps keep them fresh. It's a great idea, and one that we've since adopted for oysters, too.
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