- Quahog clams
- Potatoes
- Salt pork
- Cream
- Oyster crackers
New England Clam Chowder
New England clam chowder. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
New England clam chowder is the creamy one: chopped quahog clams, potatoes, salt pork and cream, served with oyster crackers. The cream distinguishes it from Manhattan's tomato-based red and Rhode Island's clear-broth versions, and New Englanders defend the distinction fiercely.
It is the Boston bowl: Union Oyster House (1826, the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US) serves it in the same room Daniel Webster drank brandy in.
Key ingredients
How it is eaten
It is the Boston bowl: Union Oyster House (1826, the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US) serves it in the same room Daniel Webster drank brandy in.
Where to try it
- Union Oyster House and Legal Sea Foods in Boston
- Any Cape Cod clam shack in summer