Spaghetti with Clams | Saveur

Ingredients

• ½ tender bread crumbs made from day-old country-style bread ground in a food processor
• 8 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
• 5 tbsp. dry white wine
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup ripe sweetest, most fragrant cherry tomatoes available, preferably sweet 100s, halved
• ½ lb. dried spaghetti
• 2-4 cloves garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped
• ¼-½ tsp. marash pepper flakes or 2 pinches dried red pepper flakes
• 1¼-1½ lb. smallest manila clams or cockles, scrubbed
• Leaves from 3 branches basil (about 1 cup), coarsely chopped
• Sprigs from 6 stems flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped