Word: squid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think eating lots of squid precludes having a 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 scholarly concerns were far from the minds of the men, women and children who poured into the grassy, sun-dappled Monterey County Fairgrounds at 10 a.m. each day to breakfast, lunch, dine and snack on two tons of squid < in infinite variations: crisply fried; elegantly sauteed in olive oil with tomatoes and green peppers, then flambeed with brandy; grilled on skewers as Thai satays, Japanese teriyaki or Middle Eastern kabobs; filling empanadas, the South American pastry turnovers, and Tex-Mex burritos; marinated with hot chili peppers in Latin-American seviche; sprinkled atop pizza, pasta and the Italian deep-fried...
Some of those who shopped the dozens of stalls where squid was being cooked and sold were recent converts to this saltwater delicacy. "I just began eating squid when I came to this fair two years ago," said Alicia Silva, who had traveled from San Jose with her husband Joe and their children Amelia and Joseph, all gathered around a picnic table as they breakfasted on golden fried squid rings dipped in tartar sauce...
Many, especially those of Italian descent, who make up the majority of Monterey's fishing community, were practically weaned on squid and never tire of it. Still others came because they love food fairs. "I'm heartbroken because they've canceled Brussels sprouts," said Judy Packard, who had driven six hours from Canoga Park, Calif., with her husband Brad. "We've been to 14 fairs so far," she said. Some of her favorites starred avocados, broccoli, artichokes and garlic...
Sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club, the squid festival is a fund raiser for local charities, which divide the proceeds from entry fees and the rentals of the 60 or so booths. This year, according to Bob Massaro, the manager of the event, $39,000 will be contributed to approximately 15 organizations, some of which also man their own booths to raise even more money...