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Clams casino is a clam "on the halfshell" dish with breadcrumbs and bacon.Ruth Reichl, John Willoughby, Zanne Early Stewart (2006). The Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 1000 Recipes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. page 50. . Bell pepper are also a common ingredient. (2025). 9780199734962, Oxford University Press USA. ISBN 9780199734962
It originated in Rhode Island in the United States. It is often served as an appetizer in New England and is served in variations nationally.
There are many variations on the dish, but the constant factor is the bacon: "Bacon remains the major key to its success", with some chefs recommending smoked bacon for its salty flavor and others advocating an unsmoked variety.
The Central Park Casino was offering "soft clams a la Casino" as early as 1900.
According to Merrill Shindler, "in the first decades of this century the, if a restaurant wanted to be noted, it came up with a dish that involved the baking of shellfish".Merrill Shindler American Dish: 100 Recipes from Ten Delicious Decades Citadel Press, 2003, , 9780806524887, page 43 [2] While there was a profusion of this type of menu offering (often with the meat taken out of the shell, prepared with sauce, and returned to the shell), clams casino and oysters Rockefeller "are among the few surviving dishes from the shellfish fad".
The dish is popular with Italian-Americans, having "a permanent spot on just about every trattoria menu" in Little Italy, Manhattan, and is considered an American classic. Clams casino is often served at Italian festivals and during the holidays in the United States.
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