词汇 | chowder |
词源 | chowder. Chowder derives from the French chaudière, stew pot, the word brought to the New World by Breton fishermen who settled the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The soup called a clam chowder is made with milk, vegetables, and clams in Maine and Massachusetts, this being the famous New England clam chowder. But in Rhode Island and as far away as New York, it often is made with water, vegetables, tomatoes, and clams, this called Manhattan clam chowder. The two schools are not at all tolerant of each other. One Maine legislator, in fact, introduced a bill making it illegal to add tomatoes to chowder within the state of Maine, the penalty being that the offender dig up a barrel of clams at high tide. |
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