Show mm chowder a french duh I 1 american gregwer I 1 im am frequently asked what la Is clam chowder and I 1 have replied that more that thirty years ago go I 1 heard tho the poet longfellow a uw urge a french lady to eat some clam chowder because it wai was french the lady looked up in astonishment and uttered a most significant comment dune done I 1 un to which longfellow Lon fellow replied that the french originally settled on the border borders of new england Englan dp and mother necessity own aught them how to stew cla clams lins and lul aleh in layers with bacon sea biscuit cr arker arkers and other ingredients ifred iata in a kettle chaudiere now from the french tho the indiana rf learned the ito man catholic religion and a little of the french and a great deal of the dish diah which the new comers bad had I 1 invented the indian indians were not at apt t in n the pronunciation or in the banio canco cance of french and hen lien they heard the gaul peak speak of the chaudiere th the e indian supposed it referred to the food and lis his nearest approach to the pronunciation wae wag chadder the name which early english fishermen and settlers learned from the indian al and nd which the anglo saxon in the N new ew world further corrupted into chowder |