Fried Seafood alla Romagnola

Cesenatico, the town on the Adriatic where my mother was born, makes most Italians think of summer vacations at the beach, but it is also one of the major fishing villages on the coast. I have sweet memories of carefree summers spent in Cesenatico while growing up, but the sweetest may be of the flavor of its seafood. Just thinking about it makes me hungry — the calamaretti fritti, tiny fried squid you pop into your mouth whole; the tender baby cuttlefish; the fresh, intensely flavor