New England chowder is a milk or cream based soup built on potatoes and seafood, most often clams, and it is distinct 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 or voting across entries. One Portsmouth festival in this directory is built entirely around it.
Also known as: clam chowder, chowdah.
