Pamlico Muddle

It was the earliest English colonists who introduced muddles (“a mess of fish”), mulls, and other robust seafood soups and stews to the barrier islands that separate North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound from the Atlantic Ocean, and today the tradition continues all along the remote Outer Banks. I’ve had muddles so thick with fish and shellfish you could almost eat them with a fork, but the best I’ve tasted were much more like this amazingly light, herby concoction, which tastes so good on a cold