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Souped Up
 Swimming in seafood, Bermuda’s best food in a bowl is most certainly fish chowder — a time-honoured tradition. But other great soups include Bermuda onion and Portuguese red-bean. All make hearty appetizers or satisfying meals.
Bermuda Fish Chowder
The staple bowl begins with fresh white fish, often rockfish. Vegetables bulk it up, sherry peppers spice it up, and slow simmering is key. Dash liberally with Outerbridge’s Original Sherry Peppers sauce, made from sherry wine and 17 peppers — if you dare.
Gourmet magazine’s recipe starts with mixed white fish fillets like cod, grouper, tilefish and snapper, plus shrimp and clams. Veggies include carrots, garlic, onion, green pepper, leek, celery and tomato. The liquid is tomato paste in fish stock or clam juice. Flavourings are butter, bay leaf, allspice, thyme, Worcestershire, dark rum, and sherry-pepper sauce.
The New York Times cites a local restaurant for exceptional chowder: The Lobster Pot Restaurant & Boathouse Bar, a fish eatery with a faithful following in Hamilton. In general, pubs are good places for fish chowder, and a great example is the Frog and Onion Pub in Royal Naval Dockyard.
Bermuda Onion Soup
The mild Bermuda onion came with English settlers around 1616 and still figures prominently in soup. Tom Colicchio, celebrated chef and judge on the hit TV series Top Chef, offers his recipe: Besides the onions, ingredients include short ribs, celery, carrot and garlic. The liquid is rib broth and chicken stock. Flavourings are butter, olive oil, bay leaves, thyme, chives, horseradish, crème fraîche, sherry-wine vinegar, Gosling’s Black Seal rum, salt and white pepper. Top off with a piece of Baguette.
Portuguese Red-Bean Soup
The fiery bowl of red beans, potatoes and either chorizo or ham was introduced by Portuguese farmers in the 19th century. Comedian Bob Hope once quipped, “Every restaurant here has a smoking and non-smoking section. The smoking section is for people eating the Portuguese red-bean soup.” You’ll find many varieties a but you can almost always count on it having quite a kick.
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