buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
one thing i would like to straighten out, for all of you new englanders, is manhattan style clam chowder, the red one, is not from new york at all. so get off our backs about how "it's not really chowdah" because it's red, and has a new york name.
it was actually an invention of portugese and spanish sailors, who had tomatoes on board their ships, so they added them to the local soups and chowders when docked in new england. thus, red clam chowder was born. it has since taken on a life of it's own, with many variations to the recipe, including removing much or all of the cream.
looking down their noses at this abomination of their favorite local culinary delight, the people of new england proclaimed it manhattan style chowder, disparaging it as they do all things south of them.
so, you see, it goes even farther back than the yankees and the sawx.
it was actually an invention of portugese and spanish sailors, who had tomatoes on board their ships, so they added them to the local soups and chowders when docked in new england. thus, red clam chowder was born. it has since taken on a life of it's own, with many variations to the recipe, including removing much or all of the cream.
looking down their noses at this abomination of their favorite local culinary delight, the people of new england proclaimed it manhattan style chowder, disparaging it as they do all things south of them.
so, you see, it goes even farther back than the yankees and the sawx.