Clams. Martha recommends four pounds of top neck, cherrystone, or littleneck clams. These are all relatively easy to find at most well-stocked grocery store seafood counters. Give them a good scrub ...

There are quite a few types of soup out there, but it's hard to argue that any of them are more comforting than a good old bowl of chowder. Of course, there are different iterations of chowder, with ...

For my friend Patricia, cooking is a distant second to everything else in her life: kids, her husband, painting, shopping and travel. In fact, she does not cook except for seafood chowder, the day ...