Word: calamari
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...wonderful day, you would clearly have been in the minority at the Great Monterey Squid Festival, held on Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. The fifth and most successful of these annual celebrations, this year's event drew some 23,500 devotees of the delicacy the Italians call calamari, whose habits were described by Aristotle in his Historia Animalium sometime before...
...such events, the food of honor is a local product, Monterey being touted as the calamari capital of the world. Each year about 10,000 tons are harvested from Monterey Bay. About 90% of the catch is exported, mainly to Japan and Europe. Not only do such fairs publicize the product, they are also vehicles for other purposes: fund raising, profit making, good-natured flag waving and communal celebration...
...Boston's celebrated North End, you can find all manner of Italian food, but Francesca's (150 Richmond St.) stands out for everything from calamari to cannoli...