Quotes About Clams

#1. Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few.

Tom Douglas

#2. Clams served on Quinnipeague were dug from the from the flats hours before cooking, and the batter, which was exquisitely light, held bits of parsley and thyme. Other fried clams couldn't compare.

Barbara Delinsky

#3. Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere.

George R R Martin

#4. I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.

Jim Himes

#5. Shellfish is better to buy live. In the U.S., because we eat oysters and clams raw, it is very important that they are alive before we prepare them. It's important to look for a closed shell. If a clam is alive, the shell will be closed. Never buy clams if the shell is open.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#6. She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Louis Kronenberger

#7. Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.

Tom Douglas

#8. Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

Victor Robert Lee

#9. They're having a clam-bake. They're baking my clams.
They're baking the clams pried from my steaming pond.

Mark Levine

#10. I tied down time with a rope
but it came back.
Then
I put my head in a death bowl
and my eyes shut up like clams.
They didn't come back.

Anne Sexton

#11. I've heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many meals, whereas the equation is reversed for a bowl of clams.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

Tom Colicchio

#13. I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

Mario Batali

#14. Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Only a very bold country would mix vodka and clams. The cocktail, also known as the Bloody Caesar, was invented in 1969 by Canadian hero Walter Chell, who crushed fresh clams into tomato juice and added plenty of vodka. Americans can now take the easy route by buying Clamato off the shelf.

Kerry Colburn

#16. Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Jose Andres

#17. I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams.

Tom Douglas

#18. Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that's especially tasty with clams.

Tom Douglas

#19. They bought clams and cockles from her, told her true tales of Braavos and lies about their lives, and laughed at the way she talked when she tried to speak Braavosi.

George R R Martin

#20. It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#21. I'm from southern Arelon, Princess," Ahan said, reaching for some more clams. "To us, round is beautiful. Not everyone wants their women to look like starving schoolboys.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. If you were Meyer, who would you invest your money in? Some politician named Clams Linguini? Or a nice Protestant boy from Whittier, California?

Don Fulsom

#23. In the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams.

John Irving

#24. Lobsters, snails, crabs, clams, squids, slugs, and members of the European royal families, by contrast, have blue blood, due to the fact that it's based on copper rather than iron.

Alan Bradley

#25. My own favorite way to cook and eat razor clams is to simply dredge them in a mix of seasoned flour and cornmeal, then pan fry them in butter until crisp and golden. Be careful not to overcook them so they stay tender, not tough and chewy.

Tom Douglas

#26. You can put them in a room with QVC and they'll be as happy as clams." "QVC?" the demons said in unison. Simi looked at her watch. "It Diamonique time, too. Where's a TV?" Sin

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

Anthony Bourdain

#28. It is a dead heart.
It is inside of me.
It is a stranger
yet once it was agreeable,
opening and closing like a clam.

Anne Sexton

#29. Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

Matsuo Basho

#30. Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#31. The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

Ingrid Newkirk