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Seattle Now

Digging up an underrated PNW delicacy

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

Daily News, News

2.4613 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Pacific Northwest is a great place to hunt for clams of all types: Razor, manilla, butter, and even the elusive geoduck. But one bivalve flies under the radar: horse clams. 

In this episode, Seattle Eats host Tan takes a horse clamming lesson with Chris Cvetkovich, owner of Nue on Capitol Hill. Chris digs up a bounty of horse clams and shares his recipe for preparing them in a Peruvian ceviche. 

Remember to get a shellfish license from the Washington Department of Food and Wildlife before any clamming trip. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Ton Vin, host of Seattle Eats, a fruit podcast from the Seattle Times and KOWW.

0:08.8

Seattle's waterfront got an $800 million makeover to create a vibrant public space.

0:15.4

But is it a tourist trap?

0:17.0

I'll tell you where to get a good bite with raving the crowds.

0:20.2

Listen to Seattle Eats on the KOWW app or wherever you get your podcast.

0:28.7

Hey, good morning. I'm Patricia Murphy. Happy Memorial Day.

0:35.1

To celebrate the long weekend, we're sharing an episode of our sister podcast, Seattle Eats.

0:40.6

It's about clamming on local beaches.

0:43.2

But don't look for classic manila or razor clams in this episode.

0:47.5

Host Tan Vin and restaurant owner Chris Szekiewicz went hunting for horse clams.

0:51.8

You won't find these gems in seafood markets because they have a bad reputation, but when they're prepared well, horse clams are a real treat, just like their cousin, the gooey duck. In this episode, Chris shows Tan the best way to dig up horse clams and whips them into a Peruvian-inspired Ceviche. Here's Ton. I love that smell.

1:13.6

I know that.

1:16.6

Smell, low tide.

1:19.6

One sunny day, last month, I drove to Bridge Bay State Park near Bellingham.

1:26.6

The tide was super low, revering rocks covered in barnacles, and further from the shore,

1:32.0

a lot of sand.

1:33.7

Birds waded through the shallow water, picking off sea critters for lunch.

1:38.1

I met with Chris Beckovich in a parking lot right by the water.

1:42.2

We're going to be heading a little bit to the south end of the beach here,

1:44.7

which is, you see those little tidalins where it's very flat and very sandy. We're going to be

1:49.5

going on the right around where the herons are hanging out. As we get closer to the flat, sandy

1:57.2

part of the beach, I start seeing shallow holes in the sand. The holes are the size of a half dollar.

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