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| Calamari Fritto
Gaetano Carbone discovered fried calamari at Leon's restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut. In order to get the recipe for his own restaurant from Leon's chef, Guy swapped him his recipe for eggplant. It remains a huge favorite at Carbone's in Hartford.
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| Clam Cakes
Clam cakes make any seafood meal sing. Serve them alongside fisherman's stews such as cioppino or bouillabaisse, or along with grilled salmon or swordfish or halibut. For a less ambitious meal, you hardly need a main course. Simply serve clam cakes and chowder or lobster stew, with strawberry shortcake or wild blueberry pie for dessert. There you have a genuine summertime Downeast feast!
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| Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried green tomatoes are especially dear to the people at the Blue Willow Inn because it was this dish that made them famous. A few months after opening, when they were still struggling to make ends meet, humorist Louis Grizzard came to dine in Social Circle. He was thrilled to find a restaurant that actually served the hard-to-find delicacy of fried green tomatoes, an old-fashioned dish his grandmother used to make. After eating ten slices, he wrote a column about them. "incredibly pleasing," he declared.
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| Fried Okra
The full name of Ruth & Jimmie's, of Abbeville, Mississippi, was Ruth & Jimmie's Sporthing Goods & Cafe. Here you could buy a rod and reel, shotgun shells, live bait, gas from the pumps out front, and sacks of White Lily flour for making biscuits. And you could also have a great meat-and-three lunch. Ruth & Jimmie's is long-gone now, but we recall the old wood-frame shop every time we make the crunchy fried okra for which they supplied the recipe.
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| Hush Puppies
Hush puppies are a traditional companion for fried seafood throughout the South, and in eastern North Carolina, they come with barbecue. But there is no law you can't also serve them with a bowl of gumbo or of chowder from the Pacific Northwest or the Northeast. This recipe was inspired by the hushpups we at at a restaurant called the Catfish Place in St. Cloud, Florida.
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