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squid

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Cultural layer

Origin
Every ocean and sea but the Black Sea; inshore squid such as the Mediterranean's calamar, and oceanic flying squid that make up about three-quarters of the world catch
Routes
Eaten raw in thin strips as ika-somen in Hokkaido and dried as surume in Japan, whose market Davidson found taking about half the world catch; now chased by a light-luring fleet that fished 149,000 to 251,000 vessel days a year from 2017 to 2020, most of it in unregulated waters
Context
The ink once used to make the colour sepia came from the cuttlefish, though Davidson notes that squid and cuttlefish are both called inkfish. In 1999 he could still call squid probably the most important food of the sea not yet fully exploited. Seto and colleagues have since tracked a light-luring squid fleet whose effort grew 68 per cent between 2017 and 2020, 86 per cent of it in unregulated waters, where vessels stay at sea for months and tranship their catch, the profile that labour studies flag: squid jiggers carry the highest share of vessels at high risk of labour abuse of any fleet examined. This means that the abundance Davidson saw is now being taken with almost no one watching.
Behind this layer

The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson, 1999)

Katherine L. Seto and colleagues, Fishing through the cracks: The unregulated nature of global squid fisheries (Science Advances, 2023)

Further reading on this ingredient

My Greek Table (Diane Kochilas, 2018)

Route

Pending

The routes are written. They are not yet mapped.

This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

1 of 409 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype

What renders here when it lands
  • Waypoints

    Ordered places, each with its kind

  • Coordinates

    Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from

  • Segments

    From, to, and the mechanism that moved it

  • Confidence

    Documented, attributed or contested

  • Summary

    What the route argues, in a sentence

Connections

7 bonds · 7 sourced
Structural
.80

Set in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for squid in the 2008 edition, where lemon, juice is set in bold capitals.

Structural
.80

Set in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for squid in the 2008 edition.

Structural
.80

Set in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for squid in the 2008 edition.

Reinforced
.60

Squid stuffed with rice and olives, braised in tomato and dry white wine.

OriginMy Greek Table (Diane Kochilas, 2018) · The Glorious Foods of Greece (Diane Kochilas, 2001)

Read in Kochilas's The Glorious Foods of Greece, 2001, page 337, squid stuffed with rice, Kalamata olives and parsley, braised in diced tomatoes and a cup of dry white wine; the cited My Greek Table was not the copy in hand.

Reinforced
.60

Squid stuffed with rice and olives, braised in tomato and dry white wine.

OriginMy Greek Table (Diane Kochilas, 2018) · The Glorious Foods of Greece (Diane Kochilas, 2001)

Read in Kochilas's The Glorious Foods of Greece, 2001, page 337, squid stuffed with rice, Kalamata olives and parsley, braised in diced tomatoes and a cup of dry white wine; the cited My Greek Table was not the copy in hand.

Experimental
.50

Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for squid in the 2008 edition, where cayenne is set in plain type.

Experimental
.50

Squid stuffed with rice, olives and parsley.

OriginMy Greek Table (Diane Kochilas, 2018) · The Glorious Foods of Greece (Diane Kochilas, 2001)

Read in Kochilas's The Glorious Foods of Greece, 2001, page 337, squid stuffed with rice, Kalamata olives and parsley, braised in diced tomatoes and a cup of dry white wine; the cited My Greek Table was not the copy in hand.; page 221, mussel pilaf with squid in a sauce of tomato and parsley

Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place. Witness means the pairing is the place's own and the reference documenting it was written from outside.

The score is cultural weight: how central a pairing is in the tradition that documents it. It is not a prediction of how two materials behave in a formulation and not a measure of chemical affinity. The scale is ordinal, because centrality is a judgement rather than a measurement: 1.0 where the pair is the dish, 0.9 a fixed named form, 0.8 a canonical dish, 0.7 recurrent across many dishes, 0.6 common, 0.5 attested, 0.4 marginal or compound-led.

Each score is set against a named dish and carries that dish in its note. Where a score has not been examined it says so, because an inherited figure and a researched one should not look alike.

The dish is named by a reader who knows the cuisine and cites a source appropriate to it. It has not yet been confirmed inside that source page by page, so a note records what supports a score rather than what has been checked in the book.

Cite this entry

Studio Culinar-E, "squid", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/squid

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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.

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