"brooklyn1" wrote
> "cshenk" wrote:

>>Common actually! Here, it's cherrystone country so you see folks doing
>>something very like that on the grill. Often on a bed of wet corn husks.
>>Folks on the water will often use a bed of wet seaweed for the same
>>effect.

> It's sacriligious to eat cherrystones other than raw on the half shell

Hehe actually my favorite way is steamed open in a bucket of seawater.
Strain the water through a large coffee filter first to help with the sand
and have some of the strained (boiled) seawater handy to dip and de-sand the
clams.