Spaghetti alle vongole - Wikipedia

^ Gillian Riley, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food (Oxford University Press, 2007), entries for "Palourde", p. 355 and "Wedge Shell", pp. 578–79. ^ See Margaret and G. Franco Romagnoli, The New Italian Cooking (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1980), p. 104. ^ Info on Spaghetti alle vongole on Italiantourism.com ^ See, Gillian Riley's entry on "Cream" in The Oxford Companion to Italian Food, p. 147. ^ For a discussion about the Italian dislike of putting cheese on pasta dishes with seafood from an American point of view, see Robert Trachtenberg, "Just Grate", New York Times Magazine, March 30, 2008. Trachtenberg terms the prohibition "a mantra."