Pasta & Soups

My first bowl of truly great clam chowder came from a tiny shack on the Massachusetts coast where a woman in her sixties handed it to me in a bread bowl without saying a single word about what made it special. She did not have to. One spoonful and I spent the entire drive home…

I served this to my sister without telling her what was in it. She ate the whole bowl, asked for seconds, and then looked mildly betrayed when I told her the main ingredient was cabbage. That reaction is basically what happens every single time I make this dish and honestly it never gets old. Cabbage…