Hi all --

The quahog (Mya arenaria) is the staple of traditional R.I. chowdah.
It's a small clam dug from tidal flats, and is as mightily delicious raw
on the half shell as it is in clear-broth chowder (no milk or, God
forbid, tomato broth, please -- just broth and potatoes.)

Until the demise of the Narragansett Brewery, the ultimate summer RI
meal was a clambake with lobstah, cawn on the cahb, mussels, quahogs,
saugy-dogs (natural-casing hot dogs), and chourico.  Now we have to wash
it down with microbrews, and it's just not the same.

Best wishes from the state with the dirtiest politicians and the
cleanest beaches,

Jim Garman

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Dr. James C. Garman
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Salve Regina University
100 Ochre Point Avenue
Newport, RI  02840

401.341.3127