Littlenecks

[jhyde <jhyde@CHRISTSCHOOL.ORG>]

A little neck is a very small quahog, tender enough to be eaten raw, on
the half shell.   This assumes that you know what a quahog is, but just
in case: a quaghog is a hard-shelled, round clam, used in chowder (or
"chowdah").  The native Americans of the NE coast used the shells to
make wampum; since there is more white inside the shell than purple, the
purple beads were worth more, if my memory of my 9th grade research
project is correct. Up in New England, we use soft=shelled clams for
fried clams (bellies and all -- yummm) and the hard-shelled quahogs and
surf clams for chowder.  If you try to get fried clams away from the
coast, you are getting only clam strips --usually sliced surf clams,
which are large and tough .  Real native fried clams are tender and
sweet and juicy.  And although I'm from the east coast, I happen to know
what a geoduck is AND how to pronounce it (though I may have the
spelling wrong).
--
Jane Hyde, Librarian            828-684-6232
St. Dunstan Library             jhyde@christschool.org
Christ School
500 Christ School Rd.
Arden, NC 28704

"The quahog walks among us."  -- Don Bosquet

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