Glenn Smelting

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For dinner, Glenn had procured some steamer clams from Maine. He fed them some cornmeal, a trick to help clean away all the sand and grit. They were delicious in drawn butter.

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Glenn also used the cornmeal for pan-fried smelts. At the East Coast Grill, we called them “fries with eyes.”

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I fell into the trance of Glenn’s stove-top cooking and captured some of the magic on video.

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