Shellfish is a gift to hot weather cooks. In its purest form—raw—it requires no cooking at all, and platters of icy, briny shellfish have special appeal when appetites are in a heat-induced torpor.

This article appears in print in the January 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The razor clam is a sweet, meaty mollusk native to the Pacific Northwest and is easy to find along the beaches of ...