• According to the Oxford English Dictionary : Chowder comes from the French , chaudiere , meaning pot . " In the fishing villages of Brittanyfaire la chaudièremeans to supply a cauldron in which is cooked a deal of fish and cookie with some savory condiments , a hodgepodge lead by the fishermen themselves , each of whom in riposte take in his share of the prepared dish . The Breton fishermen in all likelihood carry the customs to Newfoundland , long famous for its chowder , whence it has spread to Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , and New England . "
• DidHerman Melvillecoin the full term Chowder - heads ? In " Moby Dick " the condition meant , literally , people who consumed a great deal of chowder ( as match to , say , adolt ) . Take for instance the assembly line from chapter called , appropriately , Chowder , '' Chowder for breakfast , chowder for dinner , chowder for supper , till you began to look for fish - bones coming through your clothes . ‘'• Even though clam chowder is traditionally a dairy farm - based product , I ’m not sure it works as anice emollient . Now a soup - flavoredcorn chowder puff of air , that ’s something to get behind .
• Biter Beware : chowder is considered so precious a custom that even Supreme Court ( well , of Massachusetts ) got involved . The plaintiff ? Miss Webster , a lady known to have choked on a fish pearl . The original verdict ? All restaurants must grind up the fish . Miss Webster was then awarded $ 1,800 for her troubles . The foe ’s battle yell ? " Save our cosmos - renowned fish chowder from degenerating into an insipid stock ! " net verdict : The Massachusetts Supreme Court decided that to grind up chowder chunks would destroy"a hallowed tradition . " Said the Margaret Court : New Englanders " should be train to cope with the hazard of Pisces bones . "
• Chowder has also been used as a swag insporting wagers , such as the 1986 World Series between the Red Sox and the Mets .
• What would a Dietribes post be without mention of an rust rival ? In December 2009 , Robert Shoudt of Philadelphia , ate more than 2.4 gallons of chowder to gain the first formally sanctioned Salmon River chowder eating competition and claim the title of Slammin ' Salmon Champion .
• Have a desire for more lycopene in your chowder ? Then you ’re looking for the Manhattan miscellany , which substitutes tomatoes for milk . However , this " sacrilegious " alternation of the intermixture lead to a 1939 bank note in Maine making it illegal to tot tomato to chowder ( it did n’t devolve ) . In 1940 Eleanor Early bawl out the '’ horrendous pink mixture '' in her book , New England Sampler . Manhattan clam chowder , she write , '' is only a veg soup , and not to be confused with New England clam chowder , nor spoken of in the same breath . ''
• With that in mind perhaps the less said about the clearRhode Island Clam Chowder , the better .
• Growing up in the South I ’ve never even had chowder ( say it ai n’t so ! ) . Which kind should I render ? And do you guys ( should I say youse guy ? ) make it , bribe it , or pick it up for a repast ?
‘ Dietribes ’ appear every other Wednesday . solid food pic direct byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our post about hercolorful diet .
