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Today I learned that according to NY Times: "That all changed in 1974, when a business school student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Paul Ka
by jgeada 3y ago
Today I learned that according to NY Times: "That all changed in 1974, when a business school student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Paul Kalikstein came up with an idea. American consumers would probably get over squid’s texture if, as with onion rings, chefs breaded and fried it."
Odd, I thought that fried calamari was a lot older than that.
- crazygringo 3y agoNot according to Google Ngrams for "fried calamari": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fried+calamari&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fried+calamari... Apparently "fried squid" had risen in the couple of decades prior -- maybe this was the non-breaded version? https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fried+squid&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fried+squid&ye... Of course, I'd have to assume it had been breaded and fried somewhere previously. But wherever it had been, doesn't seem to have been the origin for its rise in America.