Silas does not trust soup. He calls it “a drink pretending to be dinner,” and he has been saying it for years. So when he quietly got up for a third bowl of this corn chowder last week, I nearly dropped my spoon. This corn chowder recipe is thick, creamy, and loaded with sweet corn, … Read more
A bowl of soup should not make a grown man go completely silent at the dinner table. But that is exactly what happened the first time I served this corn chowder to Silas. He ate half the bowl without saying a word. Then he looked up and asked if I had ordered it from a … Read more
Can a bowl of soup actually make someone show up at your front door uninvited? Mine did. Twice. I made a pot of this corn chowder on a random Tuesday and the smell drifted so far down the hallway that my neighbor knocked just to ask what it was. That’s the kind of chowder we’re … Read more