Plus, a restaurant-worthy spaghetti alle vongole

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Spaghetti alle vongole with chopped parsley in white wine sauce in a skillet.

Spaghetti Alle Vongole (Pasta With Clams)

The briny juices of fresh clams create the sauce for spaghetti alle vongole, a classic Italian seafood pasta dish from Naples. One reviewer deems it “quite simply the best vongole we have eaten outside Italy.”

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