Editing Chowder (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Potato and corn chowder.jpg|thumb|Potato and corn chowder]]

The origin of the term ''chowder'' is obscure. One possible source is the French word ''chaudron'',<ref name="Leslie Bilderback 2007 p. 86">{{cite book | last=Leslie Bilderback | first=CMB | title=The Complete Idiot's Guide To Comfort Food | publisher=DK Publishing | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-4406-2617-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1MkF_132_4YC&pg=PA86 | page=86}}</ref><ref name="TST-1"/> the French word for [[cauldron]], the type of cooking or heating stove on which the first chowders were probably cooked.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4065539/chowder_recipes_1969/ "Chowder Origins Still a Mystery"] ''Fresno Bee'' (19 February 1969): 17. via [[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}}</ref><ref name="Hooker-page2">{{harvnb|Hooker|1978|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=dWNACFO5zZwC&pg=PA2 2]}}</ref> ''Chodier'' was also a name for a cooking pot in the Creole language of the French Caribbean islands. Additionally, a Portuguese, Brazilian, Galician and Basque fish and shellfish stew is known as ''caldeirada'' which appears to have a similar etymology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oquee.co/o-que-e-caldeirada/|title=O que é Caldeirada|date=15 November 2015|access-date=4 October 2018|archive-date=4 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004225836/http://oquee.co/o-que-e-caldeirada/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

Another possible source of the word "chowder" could be the French dish called ''chaudrée'' (sometimes spelled ''chauderée''), which is a thick fish soup from the coastal regions of [[Charente-Maritime]] and [[Vendée]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Scalza|first1=Remy|title=14 Chowders + Craft Beer|date=2 November 2014|url=http://www.insidevancouver.ca/2014/11/02/14-chowders-craft-beer-tickets-on-sale-for-2014-vancouver-chowder-chowdown/|publisher=Inside Vancouver|access-date=19 January 2016|archive-date=12 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812234342/https://www.insidevancouver.ca/2014/11/02/14-chowders-craft-beer-tickets-on-sale-for-2014-vancouver-chowder-chowdown/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Yet another etymology could be the Quebecois French word ''chaudière'', which means "bucket".<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.dufrancaisaufrancais.com/mots-quebecois-quotidien-vidange-chaudiere-moppe-vadrouille/ |title=Les mots québécois du quotidien: vidange, chaudière, moppe et vadrouille |language=fr |date=15 April 2014 |website=Traduction du Français au Français |access-date=4 October 2018}}</ref>

In the sixteenth century in [[Cornwall]] and [[Devon]] the [[dialectal]] word "jowter" was used to describe hawkers, particularly fishmongers, which later turned into "chowder" and "chowter". However, this is not cited by the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] as a possible source due to controversy regarding the origins of the dish itself. The earliest citation the ''OED'' gives for the word used in its current sense of a fish-based stew is American.<ref>"Directions for making a chouder"; ''Boston Evening Post'', 23 September 1751</ref>