{"id":33402,"date":"2014-11-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=33402"},"modified":"2014-11-07T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:24:51","slug":"maine-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/maine-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why doesn&#8217;t Maine like tomatoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/soup-and-crackers-bowl?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/uk_21208-548x438.jpg\" alt=\"Soup and Crackers Bowl | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/uk_21208-548x438.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/uk_21208-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/uk_21208.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some might call the debate between creamy New England clam chowder and tomato-based Manhattan clam chowder a bit heated. The creamy (original) clam chowder has been around since at least the 1830s and the recipe has gone relatively unchanged. However, a few decades later, a burgeoning Italian population in New York City began using tomatoes in their chowders, thus thinning it out and giving it a red hue. Following this, chowder was added to the long list of things New Yorkers and Bostonians argued about for quite some time until a group of hardened New Englanders had had enough. In 1939, a bill was introduced in the Maine legislature that made it illegal to add tomatoes to the storied recipe. Whether a Maine restaurant could feasibly get fined today for serving up chowder Manhattan-style is debatable. However, you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a chowder lover from Portland to Providence who wouldn\u2019t be at least a little irked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/soup-and-crackers-bowl?source=blog\" title=\"Soup and Crackers Bowl\" target=\"_blank\">Soup and Crackers Bowl, $25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some might call the debate between creamy New England clam chowder and tomato-based Manhattan clam chowder a bit heated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":33461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}