My very first job was as a host in a local restaurant, and one of my opening shift duties was to write all the daily specials on a board next to the host stand. One Saturday morning, I printed off the ...

For example, corn chowder is wildly different from New England clam chowder; even if you keep the clams, chowder can differ heavily from location to location, as is seen when you compare New England ...

Like many restaurants often do, my dad’s place used to do a fish-on-Fridays thing, and the rotating soups of the day were always clam chowders — sometimes New England, sometimes Manhattan. I can’t ...