For example, take Irish fish chowder. A favorite once viewed as only a "poor man's food," Irish chowder doesn't always include clams. Instead, it reliably incorporates various fish, such as salmon ...

Gently stir in the cream, being careful not to break up the fish. To serve, fill the bread bowls with the chowder and top with the herbs and a heaped spoon of laverbread.

Enjoy an Irish west coast staple with this simple, delicious seafood chowder, perfect with brown soda bread to mop it all up. Seafood chowder with Dingle brown bread. Credit: Mark Moriarty ...

I am also cheating because I am writing about a smoked fish chowder that is traditionally Scottish rather than Irish in a week where we are celebrating Irish, not Scottish, heritage. But there is ...