The New England Clam Shack Cookbook: Favorite Recipes from Clam Shacks, Lobster Pounds, & Chowder Houses

Great, fun book for those of us who know and love New England clam shacks. It's fun to read and to look at, brings it all back to you about what fun those places are, and what a vanishing breed, and if you care to make some of the recipes, why they're there as well. Excellent book, in every aspect, and would be a fun gift book or memorabilia from travels to New England. Just love it. Very light-hearted content and lovely visual presentation, but informative as well. Nothing boring here.

Brooke Dojny's latest cookbook is a joy! It took me right back to my many childhood summers on Cape Cod--fried clams eaten with a wooden "prong," sitting at a wooden picnic table under an umbrella with the roar of the tide in the background. The recipes are great, but even if you don't cook one thing out of the book, it's worth it for the down home culinary tour of the Northeastern shore. Can't wait to follow its clam shack route up to Maine this summer. Fun! Fun! Fun!P.S.: If you don't have Dojny's last, "The New England Cookbook," you're missing out on some great cooking (and eating).

I bought The New England Clam Shack Cookbook for 2 reasons. First, I have several of Brooke Dojny's cookbooks and know the recipes to be easy and reliable. They do work. Second, I live in Maine and my family has a great fondness for clam shacks. Now, during the winter, when the clam shacks are closed, we can have fried clams and chowder at home. The bonus is the wonderful descriptions of the people who cook all of that great food.

I am absolutely delighted with Brooke Dojny's new book. It's a perfect compliment to her New England Cookbook (which I also highly recommend.) One of my favorites is Nana's Haddock Chowder and the geographical listings in the back of the book will make for a perfect clam shack-filled vacation up the coast. Wonderful recipies and terrific anecdotes - Dojny has done it again!!