Especially in coastal New England, clam and fish anchor the chowders of record, but it's easy to apply the notion of a creamy-hearty-chunky-brothy-warming soup to non-seafood ingredients, too. Since ...

Herman Melville rhapsodizes about it in the opening chapter of "Moby-Dick." A bill was introduced in the Maine legislature to make it a crime to add tomatoes to it. And nearly everyone has a glowing ...

As rain and wind wash over Southeast like a river, and leaves fall off the alder, and the berry bushes wilt, I start thinking about chowder. Fall reminds me of cupping my hands around a bowl of warm ...

When I went to culinary school, we spent a lot of time discussing soup. It started by mastering stock before moving on to producing consomme, brothy soups with simple additions, thick pureed soups and ...

There is a reason why every run-down, disreputable, reeking, inexplicably charming fish joint in North America serves New England-style clam chowder, and that's that New England-style clam chowder is ...

Whether you look forward to it as a go-to appetizer every time you step foot in a seafood restaurant or you've just happened to notice how often restaurants offer it on Fridays, chowder has been a ...