If I’m asked — and I seem to be asked often — what the signature dish of the Monterey Bay Area is, I say it’s a no-brainer: fried calamari. Nearly every restaurant in the area has a calamari dish on ...

This image shows a recipe for Rhode Island–Style Fried Calamari by Dan Rinaldi, a firefighter in Providence, R.I., from “The Great American Recipe Cookbook," a new PBS series that gathers 10 home ...

Dan Rinaldi, a firefighter in Providence, Rhode Island, leaned on his state’s fresh seafood for this dish. He says battered squid tossed with hot cherry peppers is a great representation of where he ...

When it comes to enjoying a plate of fried calamari, it’s a pure disappointment to bite into one and feel you’re chewing on an elastic band. As celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis points out, fried ...

Yesterday Lori Midson served up a picture of some abysmal fried calamari, which a reader quickly pegged as coming from Odyssey Italian Bistro. But it could have come from so many other places that ...