Local Calamari Anyone? Good Luck with That

American squid’s 12,000 mile journey to your plate

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Even as a local food movement continues to grow all over the US, the squid many of us love to eat deep fried, grilled or thrown into a stir fry, are being caught, frozen, sent to China, unfrozen, processed, refrozen and sent back to the United States in giant 50,000-pound shipping containers.