Pumpkin, Corn, and Bell Pepper Chowder

If this chowder seems sophisticated enough to come from a fine restaurant, it’s because it was inspired by a creamy, amazing corn chowder with red pepper I raved about at Fearrington House, outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina (operated, as it happened, by an old high school classmate of mine, Jenny Fitch). Forever searching for new ways to use fresh pumpkin in the early fall (not to mention the last ears of summer corn), I transformed the recipe for the Fearrington corn cho