Steamed Corn with Clams and Bacon
"When I was nine, my uncle had a clam bake. He drove four hours in his banana-yellow 1965 Chevy pickup truck to the Massachusetts coast and filled the back with bushel baskets of clams packed in ice and seaweed. Then he returned to his house in Vermont where he’d invited about a hundred folks and hired a local rock band to play while he baked clams and steamed huge cauldrons of corn over big fire pits. It was a hot July night and just at dusk it began to rain so hard we had to put a tent over the fire pit, which made for delicious, smoky corn. This is just another one of the great rules of the kitchen, that from mishaps you often discover wonderful things. I know that gastro-nostalgic moment influenced the way I make corn. Sweet corn with smoky pimentón always take me back to that rainy July night." – Seamus Mullen, author of Hero Food.
