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Showing Original Post only (View all)Clam Chowder - New England or Manhattan? [View all]
Manhattan Clam Chowder vs. New England Clam ChowderYou think the rivalry between Manhattan clam chowder and New England clam chowder (sometimes called Boston clam chowder) isn't as serious as YankeesRed Sox or Rangers-Bruins?
Consider this: in 1939, a bill was introduced in the Maine legislature to make it illegal to add tomatoes to chowder. For decades, New Englanders have viewed tomatoes in clam chowder as an affront to the very essence of soup.
Chowder, New England adherents believe, should be thick, creamy and cream-colored, and that version has been around since at least the 1830s. But leave it to New Yorkers to reinvent something and call it their own. In the mid-1800s, the large Italian population in New York started using tomatoes in their chowder, thinning it out and giving it a reddish color, and hence, a new chowder was born.
But we think if you surveyed even Manhattanites on the superior chowder, they'd clam up and go with New England's.
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Adulterating perfectly good chowder with tomatoes is indeed a venal sin n/t
ProgressiveProfessor
Sep 2012
#1
Sparkly and I both recall them from the Connecticut shore where we both grew up.
Stinky The Clown
Sep 2012
#6
Even tho I only 'lived' in Manhattan as long as I was in the hospital in which I was born???
elleng
Oct 2012
#23
Yeah, in my neck of New England (on the coast, Mass / NH border) chowder was unthickened.
pinto
Sep 2012
#12
Cream, flour, butter, small diced potatoes, minced clams with juices, a little grated onion
Gormy Cuss
Oct 2012
#16
I like both but they have to be homemade. Canned clam chowder doesn't cut it.
no_hypocrisy
Oct 2012
#17
I love BOTH styles. Mostly I eat Manhattan style these days because of the veggies and no cream.
kestrel91316
Oct 2012
#24
Sorry. I wouldn't eat soup with broccoli or brussels sprouts in it if you paid me.
kestrel91316
Oct 2012
#26