Anyway, I’d brought some tins of Mitch Tonks’s Brixham Calamari in Ink, made from cuttlefish caught off the south-west coast.

Cuttlefish is quite difficult to buy as many fishmongers think it too inky and messy to bother with. You will need to be pre-order it unless you have access to a fish market. It’s available most ...

This recipe is based on a luxurious version of ... the butcher to put the meat through the grinder. Buy a whole dried cuttlefish, not the shredded type sold as a snack; the whole cuttlefish ...

First prepare the cuttlefish (or squid – they are done pretty much in the same way). If whole, and uncleaned, do this in the sink as the black ink can make the whole process very messy.

Take this dish of snap peas with cuttlefish and wakame (seaweed). The peas, also known as sugar (and sugar snap) peas and as teardrop peas, which are as popular in Shanghai as in Spain ...