Sea air, crisp apples, the brisk, spice of fallen leaves there are few things that say autumn in New England like the scents that seem to buffet the senses from everywhere. Among those marvelous treats for the senses are popular dishes from appetizer to dessert that you just wont find or at least wont find quite the same way anywhere else in the country. If you doubt it, theres always an ad that was popular this past autumn after the Red Sox won the World Series. In it, a man was explaining, Son, when you live in New England there are three basic truths… clam chowder is white
And the other two truths dont matter. We New Englanders take our clam chowder seriously. Up and down the New England coast throughout the autumn, nearly every town and township has its Chowder Festival. Throughout the six states, restaurants cook up pots of chowder from their best recipes and compete to be named Best Clam Chowder. The granddaddy of all New England Chowder Festivals is held in Newport, Rhode Island, where dozens of area restaurants compete for the title of Americas Best Clam Chowder.
Its a simple enough dish, but like chili in Texas and crab cakes in Maryland, every...