Grilled Cuttlefish in its Own Ink with Quinoa and Mussels

In French, the following appetizer might have been called seiche en deuil, or “cuttlefish in mourning,” as it is a whole cuttlefish dressed in black—that is, served with a sauce made from its own dark ink. But in ancient times the color black was associated as much with rebirth as with death. The story goes that, thousands of years ago, Egyptians saw that the black mud from the Nile was very fertile; leftover embedded seeds of plants that had died in the silt would sprout and grow qu