New England chowder is a milk- or cream-based soup built on potatoes and seafood, most often clams, and it differs from the tomato-based Manhattan style. On the New Hampshire Seacoast it shows up both as everyday food and as a judged competition between restaurants, with visitors tasting and voting. The 97.5 WOKQ Chowder Festival in Portsmouth is built around that competition.
Also known as: clam chowder, chowdah.
