What do you think of that recipe Shel?
I've had salt pork versions I've liked but bacon's smoke just strikes me wrong with clams.
A few years back, my sisters did a drive up the West Coast from San Diego to Seattle and made it a point to sample clam chowder all along the way. When they got back, they tried mine as I posted above. Their first question was, "Did it have bacon in it". A number of their top chowders had had bacon. They ranked mine within the top two or three of the ones they had tried on that trip.
Phil |