I was in the mood for clams this weekend. Perhaps a nod to the final days of summer….the last warm nights under my pergola, candles flickering, fountain gently gurgling, crickets chirping. Ahhh, glorious summer.  With clams on my mind, I remembered a wonderful dish that I had had while sitting overlooking the sea on the western coast of Sardinia a few years ago….teeny, tiny clams (‘vongole veraci’) fresh from the sea simply dressed in a fennel broth and sprinkled with pepper.

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