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>"What is your favorite thing to eat?” was the first, clearly deep, question directed at Tucker. Without a moment’s hesitation, “Shellfish!” was fired out of his mouth as if he knew my question. Proceeding to list the various salty, briny, creatures he loves the most, Tucker discusses his annual pilgrimage to New England, where he contends is the only real place in the US to get clams. “The key to clams is A) they must be whole, you can’t take the bellies off,” he says as if giving a collegiate lecture on the subject. “The bellies have to be full of sea water, and sand, and clam excrement. And they should be enormous. And filthy. Clams are like sex; you can’t think about it to much, you just have to dive in face first.” Pushing thoughts of Tucker, sex, and diving into anything face first aside, he says Blacksalt is the best place in the area to get clams, specifically, the clam chowder. Having been to Blacksalt a half dozen times, I can agree they have some damn good seafood, and one of the best tuna tartares I’ve had in this country. (*Note to self, order chowder next time.)
>It’s not long after we digress to discussing who cooks in his household, freely admitting “I couldn’t make a pop tart at gunpoint,” are we back on shellfish. “I love shellfish,” he says. “There’s also an element of danger in shellfish, I like that…the Japanese understand this, that’s why they eat poison blowfish. Because even as it’s sliding down your gullet, you realize ‘this could be my last bite ever,’ and you realize that, and there’s something thrilling about that.”
>It’s not long after we digress to discussing who cooks in his household, freely admitting “I couldn’t make a pop tart at gunpoint,” are we back on shellfish. “I love shellfish,” he says. “There’s also an element of danger in shellfish, I like that…the Japanese understand this, that’s why they eat poison blowfish. Because even as it’s sliding down your gullet, you realize ‘this could be my last bite ever,’ and you realize that, and there’s something thrilling about that.”
