DESPITE its status as the nation’s smallest state when it comes to land, Rhode Island is big on food, offering several specialties that are difficult to find outside its tiny terrain. Consider stuffies—a version of stuffed clams, typically made with linguiça, a Portuguese sausage. Or coffee milk—milk and coffee syrup mixed together, like a chocolate-milk alternative.
But as America learned over the summer, Rhode Island’s true culinary passion might be calamari (aka squid), the tentacled delicacy that’s a traditional staple…
