ITS good to try new things, last night for the very first time I ate:

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6. Quahogs

(pronounced COE-hogs) are large clams. The best way to prepare them is to grind them up, mix them with breadcrumbs, veg and herbs, butter, and the clam juice to moisten. Pack it into the half shells and bake it until the stuffing starts to brown and the house smells like a little slice of heaven.

Once in a great while, a new cook will try to serve them to dinner guests. Whole. Maybe in a casserole, soup, fried or worst, steamed. Hilarity ensues as everybody tries to be polite and it's exactly like trying to eat old tires..

I admit I passed on the chicken feet in the dim sum restaurant back in Boston, mostly because I was afraid of biting down hard on a little bone and breaking a tooth, a reasonable fear in my case. They did smell great and I remember my grandmother putting them into her chicken soups, fishing them out when they'd given up their flavor, color and cartilage.

I've eaten some pretty remarkable things in my life. I do draw the line at liver, can't get it down. Oh, and whole quahogs.