I hear ya. It didn't seem that long ago when a cheap home cooked meal was
fish... whatever the market had that day. Not so anymore... now fish is a
"special meal." I think I paid 12.99/lb for sole a couple of weeks back.
Hell, lobster is less expensive.

--Mike

P.S. I spent most of my teen years in Cheshire, CT


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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My mom used to make one hell of a chowder from a variety of seafood
similar to the kinds described in the article. I sure remember the days of
inexpensive fish at the fish markets. My mother was from Boston, but there
was plenty of fish and shellfish available in New Haven when I was growing
up there. I think the damned huge factory fishing ships have ruined the
sea as a resource.





On 1/17/2007 9:50 PM, Mike wrote:
Thanks Harry. Nice story , and so true. Made me hungry for that
'chowdah' my grandmother used to make back in the day. I'm originally
from MA, but she was born in ME.

--Mike

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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The New York Times

January 17, 2007
Sea Sends Distress Call in One-Note Chowders
By MOLLY O’NEILL

Stonington, Me.

DICK BRIDGES has big, calloused hands, hands that have been thickened by
half a century of fishing, hands that can build a life and shape a
community. They are not the sort of hands you expect to see mincing
onions in a church kitchen. But on a recent Saturday evening Mr. Bridges
grasped a flimsy knife, reached for a sack of yellow onions and launched
into a soliloquy about fishing in America and the dish that tells the
story: chowder.

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