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Some Dishes Deserve Three Different Kinds of Chilies
This thrice-spicy recipe for grilled squid from Rita's in East London features ancho chili mayonnaise, fresh red chilies, and chipotle oil.
How-To: Make Three-Chili Squid with Rita's
Gabriel Pryce—head chef at Rita's in East London—teaches us how to make three-chili grilled squid with ancho chili mayo, fresh red chili salad, and house-made chipotle oil.
Further Proof Squid Masks Make for Better Self-Portraits
Using cigarettes, bananas, and so, so much more, Edu Monteiro takes the artist-selfie zeitgeist to the next level.
Grilled Calamari in Brown Butter Recipe
This easy and tasty recipe of grilled calamari with roasted garlic, olives, and capers comes from Tim Tibbitts of Flying Fish in the Bahamas.
Menu Substitution Is a Sign of Bad Manners
I’ve been a chef for seven years, and in the last year or so, I’ve noticed a sharp increase in the amount of people asking for elements to be removed from dishes; bits to be swapped from one onto the other. It drives me fucking insane.
How to Win at China's Incredible Live Fish Markets
A chef based at Shanghai’s biggest seafood market showed me how to pick out and cook still-twitching crabs, turtles, sea urchins, and rare eels, all while trying to avoid stepping on dead rats.
The Ethics of Eating Fish That'll Die Pretty Soon Anyway
Forget about sustainability for a second: Is it a worse crime to eat a sea creature that lives for many years than one that's only around for a few months? If so, let's gorge ourselves on short-lived squid and shrimp, and leave immortal jellyfish in...
Britain's Alien Squid Mystery
It's either a very cool marine creature, or a very cool fake marine creature.
We Can Be Gyros Just for a Day
On last month's equinox I was traveling with a friend of mine through the Aegean Sea. Over the 16-hour boat ride we passed hundreds of small islands on our way to a magical cluster of the Greek Isles called the Kiklades. They are all arid and...