Word: calamari
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...appetizers, we order caprese—simply tomatoes, fresh basil and buffalo mozzarella, drizzled with olive oil. We also get a plate of prosciutto and some fried calamari. Each is ten or twelve dollars. Yes, anyone could make some version of these, just as anyone could throw eggs in a frying pan. But it takes a certain experience to know which tomatoes, from where, and how thick to cut them, and how much basil, and where do you get such incredible mozzarella, and what kind of olive oil. Too often, restaurants compensate for ignorance with complexity—trying...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team returns to action on Friday at the Calamari Invitational, hosted by Brown...
Indeed, a tremendous plate of “New England style” calamari, coated in a cornmeal batter and served over a bed of spinach leaves with diced tomatoes and piquant pepperoncini ($7.95), was a substantial and successful appetizer. The richness of the fried squid contrasted with the sweet taste of the tomatoes and the zip provided by the hot peppers to enliven a dish that can often, when handled less sensitively, become cloyingly repetitive...
...fill the time available. You may give lip service to this column, e-mailing it to blockmates or posting it on the Microfridge. But I won't believe you until I see you out there, admiring the view from Roxbury, walking across Longfellow Bridge, and finding the best calamari in the North End. If this week you are going to tell strangers in Atlanta or Athens you "go to school in Boston," you need the knowledge to prove...
Using some free air miles to fly from their home in Seattle to Corfu, and with the cost of food and lodging at the work camp only $125 a person, the Kraussers spent less than $1,000 for their two weeks. The Greek group leader often sauteed calamari for a treat at lunch, which was the main meal, and the seven other campers, all in their 20s and from Holland, France, Crete and Britain, shared recipes. Everyone ate together at a large table under a shade tree in front of the little school. When the Kraussers weren't wearing shorts...