Lemon & Chilli Grilled Calamari

I only discovered calamari once I’d left school but I seriously love it. Dishes like this remind me of the fish and chips shops of my younger days. Of places like Lady Grey’s Fisheries in Paarl, where we’d all stand, happily and hungrily, in a row waiting for our hot parcels of vis en tjips in an aromatic haze of lemon, oil and vinegar. In later years when Maryke and I were working in England, I experienced exactly the same good feeling when we went down to the local ‘chippie’, as they call