Yet it is a dish I return to again and again: a perfectly creamy salmon stew overlooking the Baltic Sea on a long summer evening in Helsinki; my millionth bowl of never-not-scrumptious seafood chowder ...

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 ...