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a soup so thick it had to be illegal to add tomatoes in Maine.
means A thick, hearty soup typically made with seafood (like clams) or fish, along with potatoes, onions, and often milk or cream.
from Most likely from the French 'chaudière,' the big cauldron in which fishermen along the Atlantic coast cooked up communal stews — a cousin, perhaps, of 'cauldron' itself, both tracing back to Latin 'calidus,' meaning hot. The word crossed to the New World with Breton and Norman fishermen and settled comfortably into the kitchens of New England and the Canadian Maritimes, where the pot eventually lent its name to what it held.
- real law
- Maine once proposed banning tomatoes from clam chowder
- name origin
- From French chaudiere, the cauldron sailors cooked it in
- navy fuel
- Fed crews aboard ships before refrigeration existed
- thursday tradition
- Boston restaurants served chowder on Thursdays for generations
- chowder wars
- Manhattan versus New England is a genuine regional feud
manhattan clam chowder — tomato-based soup originating in new york city, served in restaurants since the 1800s
new england clam chowder — cream-based soup from massachusetts, made famous by restaurants in boston since the 1700s
corn chowder — hearty american soup made with corn, potatoes, and cream, popular since the colonial era