. >> much nicer than i deserve, trurs me.ed by and put into my office, you can see everything he did to it piece by piece. >> so you're finally going to get out of meredith's office? >> you say finally, it's only been three weeks. thank you so much for letting me borrow/steal things from your office. >>> up next -- >> can we come visit? >> you know where i'm at? >>> >>> this morning on "today's" kitchen, back to basics, an italian favorite, linguini with clams. full disclosure, win of my favorite restaurants, and when i go there, this is probably my favorite dish. this is a very traditional dish, you try and shake it up a little bit? >> we do shake it up a little bit. we add a little bit of chile and it gives a little bit of richness to the sauce. >> you're using mahogany clams? >> it has a more variety, salty flavor, we take our garlic and we sweat it out good. >> you've just washed these clams, explain what personalipu for the uninitiated? >> it's purging of the sediments. they just exudeded a little bit of their own juice