thanks, roadfood.com, for the photo!
According to the Boston Globe, Route 133 is the local clam center of goodness. Of the four clam shacks reviewed, only The Clam Box and the all-famous Woodman’s use local clams exclusively. JT Farnham’s and our favorite, Essex Seafood, use local clams for the most part, but will go farther afield if they can’t get local.
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Interested in more local seafood adventures? At the Gloucester farmers’ market, you can see, and possibly take gustatory part in, a seafood throwdown, where local chefs are given $25 to spend at the farmers’ market and fifteen minutes to pick out produce and fish. Then they have an hour to cook a meal at the farmers’ market. If you’re lucky, you’ll be one of the people chosen at random to eat blue fish with braised mustard greens, red-skinned potatoes, sweet corn, caramelized leeks, and tomatoes. It’s a hard job, but someone has to do it.
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The article also mentions the possiblity of Community Supported Fisheries in Gloucester. Anyone interested in picking up a weekly share of fresh North Atlantic fish? Be still my beating localvore heart.
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As an Ipswich resident, I give my vote to the Choate Bridge Pub in downtown Ipswich for best fried food and best value. The lobster roll is filled to overflowing and costs about $13.95. I ask for the onion rings, which are to die for, instead of the fries. (I must confess, however, I don’t know for sure that they use Ipswich clams, but why wouldn’t they?) You can’t go wrong. No tourist trap, no outrageous tourist prices. Great local pub atomosphere.
[...] Supported Fisheries have received a bit more press since I first mentioned them. A recent issue of Orion discusses them and their benefits and barriers to success and the [...]