Essex claims to be the place fried clams were invented. That’s debatable, but there’s no doubt that Cape Ann — Essex in particular — is a wonderful place to eat fried clams. Foremost, there is Woodman’s of Essex, the place where Chubby Woodman is said to first have fried them, in 1916. Essex Seafood has terrific clams, too, as well as lobster dinners and fried seafood plates. For those who seek a town-cafe ambience for clam eating, the Village Restaurant is an Essex institution with a menu-for-everyone that includes terrific fried clams and goes far beyond them. Ten miles north of Essex is Ipswich, home of the Clam Box, the iconic clam-eating restaurant that is shaped like the cardboard box in which fried clams are presented at eat-in-the-rough clam shacks.
By Jane And Michael Stern I am a semi-retired plumber, but I've dug clams all my life," says Tom Marr, the cook at Farnham's diner in Essex, Massachusetts. "The ones...
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Few eats stir Yankee passions more intensely than fried clams. Most devoted clamophiles insist on whole belly clams (the big gooey ones), and while clam strips do tend to...
