Christmas Eve Calamari

Photo by France Ruffenach for Chronicle Books

This dish of slowly stewed calamari has always been the star attraction on our Christmas Eve table. Back in the 1970s, before squid was popular in the U.S., my mother would order it ahead of time from the fish market in Princeton, N.J., near where we lived. They were sold whole and not cleaned, so she would s…

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