The most well-known type is creamy white New England clam chowder.
The most despised is the blood-splatter scarlet Manhattan clam chowder.
The chief editor of Rhode Island Monthly magazine, Jamie Coelho, claims that salty, clear-broth Rhode Island clam chowder “is the original chowder.”
Meet Walter Diemer, the American inventor of Bubble Gum, and the home-kitchen chemist who shocked scientists.
“The indigenous tribes of Rhode Island gathered quahogs to eat, long before the colonists arrived, and used them to make chowder.”
Native Americans didn’t make creamy chowder for a very good reason.
There were no cows there.
The creatures are not American natives.
Only with the arrival of European settlers following Columbus’s discoveries did they reach the Americas. Native Americans did not own any domesticated animals. They did not often eat dairy.
