"At Cosenza's, ice-filled benches just outside the store's windows display piles of bivalves: clams are shucked to the left of the front door (a buck-fifty each for juicy midsize cherrystones, fifteen dollars for a dozen) and oysters to the right. On a recent visit, the lineup included Beau Soleils, from New Brunswick, and Wellfleets, from Massachusetts, for $2.99 each; Blue Points from Long Island Sound, for $2.50; and—at a steep $3.99 a pop—Kumamotos from California's Humboldt Bay." - Helen Rosner
