What's in your chowder?

From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA | Date: February 8, 2004| Author: E.A. Harvey | Copyright information

When Kevin Brown, Paul Cupples and Scott McCarty think chowder, it's potatoes they see swimming in their steaming soup pot.

Nothing else defines a chowder better, they said.

Chowder is just a soup that has lots of potatoes in it, said Brown, executive chef at Elizabethtown College, and formerly of the Hershey Country Club.

It's not necessarily seafood. It's not necessarily thick. And it's not necessarily creamy.

"Anything goes," Brown said. "But it has to have potat...

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