The Chowder Odyssey

And The Winner Is....

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 …