Manhattan Clam Chowder!

[Taverner]

I finally got my can!

It's good stuff - some oyster crackers and I'm good

[Swede]

1. Why is that clam chowder red?

It can't be clam chowder.

[Taverner]

2. Hey now - I'm Chowder Agnostic

All Chowders (except for corn chowder - YUK) are good

[Shell Beau]

11. corn chowder is YUMMY

[Taverner]

12. You can have your corn chowder, and ham chowder

My chowder contains MOLLUSKS!

[Shell Beau]

13. Who said anything about ham chowder?

I like shrimp or crab in mine!!!! :9

[Taverner]

14. Wouldn't that be Crab Chowder then?

[Shell Beau]

17. It is corn chowder dammit!!!

:P

[trof]

15. Naw. I think it's minestrone.

;-)

[whistler162]

3. I am sorry but that combination of words doesn't parse.....

please try again.

Manhattan and Clam and Chowder don't configure into a meaningful concept!

[Taverner]

6. Now now, a little insight and history

Manhattan clam chowder has clear broth, plus tomato for red color and flavor. In the 1890s, this chowder was called "New York clam chowder" and "Fulton Fish Market clam chowder." The name "Manhattan clam chowder" became attached in the early 1900s from the people in Maine. Restaurants typically serve New England or Manhattan chowder, but not both. Clam chowder, in its cream-based New England version, has been around since the mid-18th century, and no mention of any Manhattan chowder has been found that predates the 1930s. Many restaurants in northern Rhode Island sell both red and white chowders, while the southern coast favors clear and white chowders. Often they are served alongside clam cakes.

According to Good Eats, the addition of tomatoes in place of milk was initially the work of Portuguese immigrants in Rhode Island, as tomato-based stews were already a traditional part of Portuguese cuisine. Scornful New Englanders called this modified version "Manhattan-style" clam chowder because, in their view, calling someone a New Yorker was an insult.

[RushIsRot]

4. Wonderful tasting stuff, especially with a few squirts of Tabasco.

[Taverner]

5. Hmmm I'll try that next time

I just used lots of black pepper in mine

[One_Life_To_Give]

7. Illegal in these parts

Be a bummer to do time for putting Tomatoes in your chowder. So keep it out of Massachusetts.

[Taverner]

10. Psst....want to buy some Vitamin "T"?

[pokerfan]

8. ever try cioppino?

I prefer my chowder New England style but cioppino is awesome.

[Taverner]

9. cioppino is awesome - I just wish I wasn't allergic to half of it

Somehow Clams are OK

Shrimp is OK in small doses

Crab, Lobster and Crayfish are all out though :cry:

[Bertha Venation]

16. SO much better than that white crap.

:puke: NECC.

[Taverner]

18. It's all good Mizz Katzangel :)

I take it you never had MY homemade New England Clam Chowder

I use smoked salmon instead of bacon drippings, and red potatoes (with skin) and always ALWAYS whole milk

[Bertha Venation]

21. Oh, okay.

Harrumph.

;)

[Gormy Cuss]

23. Welcome to my ignore list, bertha.

Unless by "that white crap" you mean the Snow's in a can library paste type that many restaurants south of Maine pawn off as New England clam chowder. Real chowder made at home is good stuff. The broth isn't thickened and the clams aren't boiled into shoe leather.

I like a decent bowl of Manhattan clam chowder too though, in spite of my roots.

[trof]

19. If it ain't chowdah, it ain't chowdah.

[Taverner]

22. Ahhh SF Style Chowder

Only diff between that and NECC is the sourdough bowl and the chowder is thicker.

[Chan790]

20. A little part of my soul just died...

Chowder is white, dammit. What you have there is some sort of tomato-based clam abomination.

You probably drink Clamato, too...heretic.

[elleng]

24. Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay, Lundy's

where I learned to eat it AND LOBSTER!!!

Important part of my youth, Dad's best friend lived there. THOSE were the days!

http://www.recipelink.com/cookbooks/1998/0060187417_1.html

[Sebastian Doyle]

25. Blasphemous Abomination!

And I ain't talking about the Kosher prohibition against shellfish.

Clam Chowder is white, not red.