Step by step

Brown the bacon in a non-stick pan

Tips
If you are not confident of being able to wash the clams well, purging them of any sand residue and removing any that are not alive and healthy, trust your fishmonger to do the job for you.
Trivia
Clam chowder is known by everyone as an American recipe, but not everyone knows that it arrived in New England with the Breton fishermen who emigrated there: so its origins are French! Imagine: this soup is so popular in America that Campbells, the brand of canned food made famous by Andy Warhol, markets a tinned version.