Grab a spoon and brace for a steamy bowl of comfort, as National Clam Chowder Day on Feb. 25 celebrates one of the country’s favorite ... Read more The post Clam chowder remains America's favorite ...

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“CHOWDER” CAME into English from the French word “chaudiere,” which translates as kettle. In French-speaking zones of eastern Canada, the chaudiere was traditionally filled with fish soup built on a ...

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 a young boy growing up in Mexico, Samuel Sanchez savored eating fish soup with family at his grandmother’s long dinner table. The soup was cooked by his uncles — a detail that stuck with Sanchez, ...

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 ...