[Sca-cooks] chowder - OOP

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 16 Jul 2002, at 14:29, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> Also sprach Robin Carroll-Mann:
> >I am a Universalist as far as chowder is concerned, so I have no axe
> >to grind.  I don't think that a description of shipboard chowder will
> >tell us a lot about its preparation on land.  Sailors on a long
> >whaling voyage would not have easy access to either milk or tomatoes.
>
> Hmmm. As I recall, the passage above refers to a chowder found in a
> New Bedford boarding house.

Ah.  I have never read "Moby Dick", and the mention of ship's
biscuit strengthened my impression that this was a shipboard
scene.


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