My very first job was as a host in a local restaurant, and one of my opening shift duties was to write all the daily specials on a board next to the host stand. One Saturday morning, I printed off the ...

“Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics and religion, that can never be discussed lightly,” Louis P. De Gouy wrote in 1949 in The Soup Book. Almost 70 years later, that’s still the case ...

Like many restaurants often do, my dad’s place used to do a fish-on-Fridays thing, and the rotating soups of the day were always clam chowders — sometimes New England, sometimes Manhattan. I can’t ...

Cream, butter, crabmeat, and shrimp — what's not to like? But the game-changing ingredient of this rich chowder from Andrew Zimmern is an easy homemade stock using existing ingredients (cobs from the ...