The Irish Stew

The Irish Stew

The Chowder Odyssey

And The Winner Is....

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John and Sally McKenna
Sep 26, 2024
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Irish seafood chowder is a dish that is both made on command, and by command.

The kitchen only finishes the dish when it is ordered by a customer, and they finish it according to a set of well-understood rules.

Those rules prescribe that the dish is made up of the sweated mirepoix of vegetables, a selection of fresh fish, smoked fish and shellfish, mixed …

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