What makes the perfect clam chowder? It seems my family cannot agree. On our trip to Maine, we had three cups of chowder, and we each walked away with a different favorite.
First problem - clam to potato ratio. Sarah likes a lot of potatoes, Matt prefers much more clam, and I am somewhere in the middle. Then we disagree on the broth. Should it be milk based (thin) or cream based (thick)? One version included shrimp and haddock. I said that made it fish chowder and disqualified it as clam chowder; Matt just called it delicious. And don't even get me started on saltiness.
This got me thinking - if we all live together and eat much of the same things and yet have such different tastes, how can any of us know what "good" food is? Not good as in healthy or good as in not spoiled, but good, tasty, soul-satisfying food.
You know when a friend tells you something is the best thing she has ever eaten and you taste it and think "Meh?" Or you remember something tasting perfect, and you get it again only to be disappointed?
It seems food is such a living thing that we can never dip our spoons into the same bowl twice. Or anyone else's bowls, which may be gross but we are family so we share all the time.
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