Oozing with olive oil, thick with chopped garlic cloves, and topped with salty clams - one of the flavours of New England. This is Pepe's famous white clam pizza from their landmark coal-fired pizzeria in the town of New Haven, Connecticut, home of Yale University. Pepe's claims to be the birthplace of American pizza and the queue usually inches along for an hour or more, but New Englanders deem it well worth the wait. We were glad to make the pitstop en route to New Jersey: the taste was a revelation. Who'd have thought you could have pizza without tomatoes? We downed the the golden, chewy pie with another local flavour: "birch beer" - white birch-flavoured soft drink - which smelt more than a little like Deep Heat.
The dinner followed a lunch of more clams, this time crunchy and fried, along with milky potato-studded chowder, onion rings and lobster rolls at the teaming Woodman's of Essex, just north of Boston.
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you guys sure are getting around! I've just had dinner and I want some of what you've had!
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