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 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 ...

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