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Many times over the years we have attempted to read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and surrendered after a few chapters. So we decided to get the great white whale off our back and listen to the book instead. We downloaded the University of South Florida’s Lit2Go edition free from iTunes and listen to it in traffic. Taxi on Edsa at rush hour, whaler on the high seas: it’s a match.

Chapter 15: Chowder

Photo from Fictitious Dishes by Dinah Fried

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits, and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt. Our appetites being sharpened by the frosty voyage, and in particular, Queequeg seeing his favourite fishing food before him, and the chowder being surpassingly excellent, we despatched it with great expedition…

You can read or listen to this chapter here.