“Chowder has always been here,” says Emily Haynes. “It isn’t just a dish for Nova Scotians — it’s who we are.” The executive director of Taste of Nova Scotia, an association that promotes businesses ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

New England residents stand by their clam chowder, saying theirs is the greatest. New Yorkers in Manhattan do, too, with equal passion and fervor. But is America's best chowder actually in Seattle, ...