Every year,  Ocean Wise, a Vancouver Aquarium conservation program that raises awareness of the issues surrounding sustainable seafood, has a big chowder competition held in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. This week's showdown in Toronto meant some serious competition, but the judges (Martin Kouprie from Pangaea Restaurant, Jamie Drummond from Good Food Revolution, Brad Long from  Café Belong at Evergreen Brick Works and Agatha Podgorski from Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance), came to a decision. The winning bowl of chowder went to Chef Doug Neigel of Trattoria Mercatto with his Zuppa di Vongole. The People's Choice award went to Chef Leanne English of Sodexo Canada with her Maritime Chowder. Tell me: What's your favourite recipe for chowder? Bonus points for saying Canadian Living's Nova Scotia Seafood Chowder! Photo credit: Tamara Lockwood Photography for the Vancouver Aquarium